Trees are seasonal storytellers. Intriguing beginnings. Cloaked in the middle. An inevitable pile up at the end. You wonder where the time went. I conversed with my trees the other day, hauling the fractured limbs, plot lines from the recent windstorm, and engulfing myself in a dusty encyclopedia of leaves. There’s always more to do [...]

“Please turn the channel. I’m begging you.” It was horrifying, the vision before my eyes. It was a car wreck, a train wreck, an infected scab I couldn’t stop picking and I had only just realized I wanted nothing to do with it. “MOM! I want to watch this! Do you want me to hang [...]

Apart from all the cooking and household tidying and laundry and scrubbing of the kitchen and organizing my pantry, I took some time out on Sunday to get my ye olde fashiony groove on. Sometimes I really dig on the 1940s housewife thing, and this was one of those weekends. My weekly grocery shopping trip [...]

Part of my job—albeit a very small, if not miniscule part—is to post events to Facebook, alerting people of all the fun and amazing events in and around Fresno county. Like pretty much everyone else in this burg, I’ve repeatedly heard the whine that there is “Nothing to do” in this area. Let me disabuse [...]

You see piles of things before you see people. Pinwheels, smiley-face balloons, sun-bleached American flags, potted plants, tattered chairs, chewed-up stuffed animals, tents, Tuff Sheds, huts of plywood, huts of plastic bags and tarpaulins, concrete storm sewer casings branded with “Piranha” and a scattering of barking dogs. You hear names assigned to places, names that [...]

Atop the tallest building in Clovis, I favored looking to the west. That’s how I’ve always driven to Clovis Community Medical Centers in the 23 years since it relocated from the tidy, tiny confines of DeWitt Avenue. West is likely where the stores will continue to bloom, at least initially, as hospital expansion plays out [...]