Big Night In The Canyon
That Little Flame That Tells You Who You Are
Finding Hope, Memoir, On Writing, Ranch Lifecynthiacoping, oral history, Patti Smith, Pinocchio, walks, graduation, October, moving on
At The Sea Wall
Memoir, Ranch Lifecynthiafriends, Gaviota, local history, Point Conception, railroad, ranch life, Santa Barbara, sea wall, Elwood, Orella, Channel Islands, geology
Beneath A Grapefruit Tree
Memoir, Ranch Life, Small Pleasurescynthiafamily, mentors, Nancy, my mother in law, ranch life, citrus, grapefruit, wonders
Another Summer
Melting Away Into Leaves
Memoir, Poetry, Ranch Lifecynthiaaging, El Chorro, Esther Isaacson, Gaviota, local history, Lompoc, Mary Oliver, ranch life, elders, getting old, Jim Poett, oral history
Maybe All of Summer Is Just One Day
Memoir, Ranch Lifecynthiaacoustic neuroma, aging, daughters growing up, Jane Gross, Jane Hollister Wheelwright, life lessons, loss, Pico Iyer, stillness, summer, tending to elderly parents, loss of parents, mother, decisions, my mother, wisdom
Through the Tall Grass
Memoir, Nature, Family History, Ranch Lifecynthialife lessons, loss, Dan Gerber, death, mortality, coyotes, poetry, processing loss, my mother, grief, Psalm, coping, wisdom, ranch life, coyote, ongoingness
Home Again