Author Archives: lisamarie

My neighbor John in the apartment building next door to mine keeps his sliding glass door ajar most of the time.  He keeps a basil plant on a table and a couple of chairs randomly oriented around his parcel of … Continue reading →

A few Sundays ago I made bread.  It was the kind of day that called for such a meditation.   It was a morning that started with discord and stretched out into hours of processing, misunderstandings and miscommunication, listening but not … Continue reading →

Tonight is the full moon and it is a harvest moon.  The first time I visited California with my cousin Cathy to stay with her brother Robert we had dinner in Sausalito on the evening of the harvest moon.  The … Continue reading →

It is a big wordless kind of tired that follows my Monday afternoon volunteer shift with the Zen Hospice Project at Laguna Honda Hospital.  An emptiness that feels full.  It has been a month and  half since my first shift.  … Continue reading →

This afternoon, a representative from the Gift of Life called to check in on me as today marks the one year anniversary of my bone marrow donation to an anonymous recipient.  The recipient is still anonymous, and the outcome unknown.  … Continue reading →

11:05 p.m. and the helicopters are still constant overhead.  I occupied a chair in my dining room for most of the day while logged into my work e-mail, opting not to go into the office. The building I work in … Continue reading →

Today was one of four days a year when I drive from Oakland to Walnut Creek to use the lifetime of free oil changes that came with the purchase of my vehicle five years ago, provided I go to a … Continue reading →

Hard to believe that tomorrow evening will mark one month of being back in the saddle.  That’s been the catch phrase playing like a refrain in my brain, as in doing something you stopped doing for a while.  You know, … Continue reading →

Yesterday, our first day in Singapore, after a night flight, Smith Street and South Bridge Road at Nanyang Old Coffee, where one can rediscover the good taste of old Singapore traditional coffee. This is one dark and delicious cup of … Continue reading →