Notes from Around the Block- Irv–the Owl Man on the Rancho
- Olive the trees have olives
- Wanda Hickey and the Frog Pond
- A recently discovered DNA thread: forwarding news articles
- A Bride in Blue
- The Gates to a President’s Hell: Water and the IRS
- Marriage in Oxymoronica
- The Present Moment
- If your life were a book
- From the mouths of old babes
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Author Archives: Cheri
Olive the trees have olives
by cheri sabraw You may remember that last July, we planted our 60-tree olive orchard. Since that time, the Judge has pruned, fertilized, watered, and shepherded his trees, hoping for olive buds this spring. The bees have completed their coursework. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Life, My photography
Tagged Dinah, Labrador Retrievers, olive fruit flies, olive orchard
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Wanda Hickey and the Frog Pond
by cheri block May and June signal prom time in American high schools. You know, the Junior Prom and the Senior Ball, lavish dress-up galas where fully blossomed women wear tiny satin purple dresses and stiletto pumps and boys who … Continue reading
A recently discovered DNA thread: forwarding news articles
by cheri block This morning I forwarded an article from The Wall Street Journal to my son about the SARS-like virus in the Middle East. You see, their nanny is traveling in Tunisia at this moment and will be home … Continue reading
Posted in My childhood, Parenting
Tagged 1st person, childhood, Hawaiian steel guitar, Herbert Westphal, ukelele
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A Bride in Blue
by cheri block Out on the beach with the stunning mountains of Maui rising in the north and Hawaiian music playing quietly in the background, a wedding was taking place, the vows exchange scheduled to coincide with the setting of … Continue reading
Marriage in Oxymoronica
by cheri block I live with a logical man who speaks in logical vocabulary, thinks to himself logically, and espouses logical fact-based opinions often; that is, his posturing takes place about as often as I think intuitively, elliptically, and emotionally. … Continue reading
Tagged intuition, mindfulness, scales, self-discipline, weight-gain
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The Present Moment
by cheri block Yoga has taught me to push my mind back to the present moment every time it strays. I find this effort rewarding but challenging. Staying in the present moment is experiential; that is, we guide ourselves into, … Continue reading
Posted in Life, On fiction
Tagged Buddhism, mindfulness, Naturalism, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, yoga
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If your life were a book
by cheri block We all have a life story. It has a plot and subplots, many settings, and a host of characters. Most of us like to focus on our life theme. We might remember ourselves in this way: My … Continue reading
From the mouths of old babes
by cheri block Took my mother Joan to her monthly infusion at the local hospital this morning. There, sitting with a drip line in her tiny arm and a Glamour Magazine in her crooked fingers, she said, How did I … Continue reading
