Savoring Culinary Excellence: A Memorable Evening at 1917 Restaurant
Weeks in advance, Carol Ojeda-Kimbrough and I committed to go to 1917. I wanted to introduce her to a great place, outdoorsy that felt like...
Sweet Adventures: A day with Superblooms, Daisies and Goldfields
We are all sweet today! I married a super adventurous husband. He knows how to add excitement of super blooms, that of wild California daisies...
Belem’s Timeless Delights
Belem founded 1669, while Pasies de Belem founded in 1837. Fast forward to 2023, the lines are long, but moves fast. Here with hubby @enriquedlz...
Reunited in Portugal: A Journey of Love, Adventure, and Delicious Cuisine
So happy to meet up with my hubby @enriquedlz in Portugal, who completed his third, Camino del Norte by the coast of northern Spain. He...
Patrimony of Mongolian Wisdom
Pope Francis visited Mongolia recently. As if he could read my mind’s questions from where he was, he articulated Mongolian Patrimony of wisdom, informed by...
Indescribable Awe: Greatness of Sanctity of God on Holy Grounds.
Waking up to birds chirping early in the morning and very temperate weather where we don’t need umbrellas and just our vigorous legs to visit...
Blueberry Juice: A Healthy Asthma Control Alternative
I used to endure bad asthma attacks and emergency hospitalizations at Kaiser. At that time, Kaiser prescribed ProAir and Albuterol, which fight against each other,...
Last year’s, 2016, Firefall
“YOSEMITE Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, waiting work of the lowlands, in which one...
Appreciating and preserving nature’s wildflowers and snow-capped mountains
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin...