Category Archives: Family

At the Band Festival

What a joy it was to be able to attend several performances during one day of the Orchestra and Band Festival of the Riverside Unified School District in California this late March 2024.  The 8-minute Video below shows two performances. … Continue reading

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The Neighbor Project Recieves $2 Million Grant

Note:  In addition to the honor reported below, read about how The Neighbor Project’s precursor, Emmanuel House, was named one of the Top 100 Most Innovative social change organizations in world in 2016, and how executive director Rick Guzman was … Continue reading

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Climbing Bryan’s Mountain, 2022

I hadn’t been up on Bryan’s Mountain (Bell Rock) since June 14, 2020, something I explained in my 2021 entry in this series called “Climbing Bryan’s Mountain.”  There had been our pandemic, then a year of extreme fire danger, but … Continue reading

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