Monthly Archives: May 2009

Daffodil farm

At the encouragement from my mother, Frederick plans to sell daffodils and narcissus at local farmers markets in a few years to help pay for college. She plans to help him develop the business. In the meantime, I’ll spend free time in the summer and fall moving bulbs, digging, bending, and otherwise moving my body…

Surgery in the midst of swine flu, apparently I “should write a book”

We had surgery Monday morning at the best children’s hospital in this part of the state: Children’s Hospital of Central California. We wondered if it would be safe to have surgery given the news of the swine flu epidemic over the weekend. In times of uncertainty, you just don’t know. It’s perhaps why the times…

Blue Oak Leaves

In the summer, I sit under them, without my sunglasses, take the daylight into my eyes to help my body produce melatonin. In the fall, I rake them into piles and move them to our garden’s compost bins. In the winter, I watch them deteriorate and rejoin the soil. In the spring, I enjoy the…