Summer’s not complete for me unless it includes berry picking – that’s how much of a summer ritual it’s become. I was overjoyed when my friends, Paul and Marie, agreed to accompany me to the coast south of San Francisco for some olallieberry picking at Phipps Farm and Country Store. I got enough berries for [...]

Today I spent the afternoon with my friends Pat and Mary. I am so grateful for all of my friends and especially these two. During the course of the conversation we discovered we had each had two C-sections (but Mary had the best doctor) and the product of those surgeries, our six children, range in [...]