A half-mile with Linda

Sweet spouse Linda was kind enough to walk with me this morning, despite my very slow pace. Trainer Heidi Engel has been encouraging me to walk longer distances without my cane, and this was my longest jaunt - a half mile.
I’ve been walking without my cane in the house and at the gym, but I’ve […]

A walk through Arastradero

A deer and her fawn greeted me as I made my way along a dirt path through Palo Alto’s Arastradero Preserve this morning. I was much anticipating this, only my third visit to the Preserve since cancer struck. The park’s flora is now in full, gold-and-green summer dress.
I was eager to try out my new […]

On the ‘road’

We’re blogging by iPhone from Peet’s Coffee in downtown Menlo Park, after nearly completing a 1.6 mile circumnavigation of our small town. Cousin Kelly is in town, and we met her and the family at Ann’s coffee shop for breakfast. Her kids Will and Emily had fun with my Kindle while Kelly, husband Jim and […]

‘My’ stop sign

Stanford, or maybe Santa Clara County, may think it’s their stop sign, but I think of this as my stop sign. It happens to be almost exactly one mile from my back gate, and is the current goal of my thrice-weekly 2-mile walks.
I started walking in earnest a couple of weeks ago, and am now […]

Tolerance at the heart of U.S. religious beliefs

Americans, faithful and secular alike, are tolerant of others, despite the strictures of their own beliefs, according to Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Their report, U.S. Religious Landscape Survey “reveals a broad trend toward tolerance and an ability among many Americans to hold beliefs that might contradict the doctrines of their professed faiths” […]

A Sunday morning sketch

This bright morning finds me at the kitchen table with a plate of eggs scrambled with a freshly diced tomato, a pan-grilled chicken apple sausage from Biancini’s market, a mug of freshly-brewed Peet’s coffee, a cocktail of ten pills (Lyrica, Keppra, Altace, fish oil, vitamin D3, a ’senior’ multivitamin and Alleve), a glass of water […]

Hot times in the Bay Area

Linda’s in Leaward, Kansas this evening, meeting with exotic fauna and, yes, watching the Giants play the Royals with girlhood friend Alice Carrott.  At game time (4pm in Menlo, 6 pm in Kansas) it was hotter in Menlo Park than in Kansas City. As I write, it’s still 80 degrees in my garden… maybe Al  […]

More on Martian ice ‘mystery blob’

Here’s a lightened, cropped version of the lower image in the post below, showing no Sol-20 type clumps in the shadow, but clearly showing the ‘mystery blob.’
Re-reading a couple of MPL press releases makes me believe that additional digging was done in the trench pictured on Sol 19, resulting in the images of Sols 20 […]

Ice on Mars: first look

Ice clumps on Mars? The recent announcement, first spotted on the MPL Twitter blog reports that the small grayish clumps visible in the lower left of the trench in the photo marked Sol 20 above, have disappeared by Sol 24, a discovery that is consistent with water ice sublimating into the thin, very dry Martian […]

The Smart way to Caltrain

Spotted this Smart ForTwo at the Menlo Park Caltrain station when I returned from physical therapy this afternoon. Gotta say that, other than a bicycle, this is probably the best way to get to CalTrain. My Escape Hybrid is good, too… 

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