This weekend continued in the hot trend for Southern California, but it is supposed to cool off starting today (let’s hope!). Saturday Steven, Heather and I went to check out the new Americana at Brand in downtown Glendale. It has been under construction since we moved here, and its opening is a pretty [...]

I need to rant about stupid people – more specifically, the kind of stupid that can harm people or animals. Southern California is in a heat wave, so today it was about 105 degrees in Burbank. It is up to 110 in places like Woodland Hills, where a day or two ago a [...]

Yesterday was our third wedding anniversary, hard to believe. It’s so strange – we have had such a great time together on this little adventure, and it feels like we have been together forever (in a good way!).
Last night we had dinner at our favorite restaurant in our old stomping grounds, Cafe Bizou. [...]

Steven and I are back from our cruise on Carnival to Ensenada, Mexico and back.

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Because it’s Wednesday and everyone could use a dose of Apollo cuteness, here is a fun video of Apollo and Steven playing!
FYI, we are T minus 2 days until our weekend cruise to Mexico – [...]

Last Monday I did a couple presentations to band students at Village Christian School at the request of my friend Brian. I talked about the oboe and english horn, and life as a professional musician. I also brought a plastic reed and had some kids (usually the percussionists, for entertainment value) play the [...]

My recital was yesterday at the Mears center at our church,

So we saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Saturday – I highly recommend! We really enjoyed it and it is well worth it for anyone who loves the Indiana Jones series.
Sunday my friend Janelle’s brother David came to stay with us for a few days while he [...]