The Case of the Trabuco Canyon Deer: You See What You Seek

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Deer are Here“I just saw a herd–okay, a small herd–of deer!” I raced in the door breathless, eager to share the news. We’d just moved into our home in rural-but-close Trabuco Canyon two months earlier. My first wildlife sighting right in my own neighborhood thrilled me. That was in 2007. We […]


Stalking the Elusive Bass Line

Donny, Sue, and Craig How Listening Opened my Eyes “So Donny,” I said one Sunday in the fellowship hall, as he stood beside me contemplating the plates of cookies and banana bread set out for our post-worship refreshment, “I heard this song on The Fish yesterday that had this really awesome bass line in the […]


Stalking the Elusive Bass Line

Donny, Sue, and Craig How Listening Opened my Eyes “So Donny,” I said one Sunday in the fellowship hall, as he stood beside me contemplating the plates of cookies and banana bread set out for our post-worship refreshment, “I heard this song on The Fish yesterday that had this really awesome bass line in the […]


An Orange County Autumn

Fire Station, Trabuco Canyon. November, 2011. Oh Yes We Do! Every fall, a litany arises from transplants to Southern California: “There is no autumn here!”  Pundits reply that we have two seasons: Green and brown. But I’m here to tell you that fall does come to Southern California.  Friday nights at high schools, Saturdays at universities, […]


An Orange County Autumn

Fire Station, Trabuco Canyon. November, 2011. Oh Yes We Do! Every fall, a litany arises from transplants to Southern California: “There is no autumn here!”  Pundits reply that we have two seasons: Green and brown. But I’m here to tell you that fall does come to Southern California.  Friday nights at high schools, Saturdays at universities, […]