Canines, Cats, and Contrabasses

We found out several months ago that our beloved cat, Zachy, 11 years old, had terminal stomach cancer.  There was really nothing to do but...

"She passed at 7:15 ," the hospice nurse told us as we, my sisters and I, arrived that morning five years ago, at my mother's...

The year was 1981 and I was spending that season playing bass in the Mexico City Philharmonic.  This is an excellent Orchestra that is made...

Back when our daughter Fiona, now 18, was 9 and in Ballet 2 at the San Francisco Ballet School, we found out that she had gotten two roles...

My eighteen-year-old daughter Fiona came home for Thanksgiving and brought with her three kittens that she had rescued.  They are about thr...

It was last Monday afternoon and I boarded the 4:46 PM BART  for my Writers' Class in Berkeley.  I got on the train in Millbrae with ju...

Since Mona (my coon hound mix) and I completed  beginning and intermediate agility classes on Sunday mornings at the Peninsula Humane Socie...