Four years ago at this time I was in the sixth month of a simple calorie counting/cataloging program through a wonderful website at www.fitday.com, and I stood at 208 pounds — 52 lighter than what I’d weighed when I began in January 2006 (and the lightest I’d been since my late teens). For a year …
In response to a post by fellow Blogging.la’er Lucinda Michele, which upon her return after a few weeks away in Death Valley and Seattle left her questioning whether she might be falling out of love with our unfair city, I added the following comment that picks up on what she beautifully had to say about …
The afternoon gathering came together rather quickly. My daughter Katie and I had plans for her to bring my grandson Aiden over and visit today. On a spur of the moment, I invited my mom to join us. She accepted. Not only was this the first time in 10 years that Katie and my mom …
Susan and I had considered driving over to Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook State Park for a sunset hike up to its plateau and the panoramic view there of whatever fireworks displays might present themselves across a wide angle of the L.A. basin… but we ended up blowing that idea off and opted to stay in …
At about 9:25 a.m. this morning, our little baby hummingbird took its first flight from the fruit picker that had been its nest since Sunday. It was able to gain a smidgen of altitude and land a few feet away on a branch in the tree where it was born (as shown above; click to …