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The SF Giants are going to the World Series. It’s called the World Series but it’s actually only in America. But I’m happy because the whole of San Francisco is cheering. The city atmosphere feels completely different from the day Bush got re-elected in 2004. That day was glum. The Giants might win this […]

Saturday was my 32nd birthday. Paul drove me from one destination to another delivering events that he’d kept secret from me for weeks. The first surprise was a horseback ride along a sunny shoreline that bloomed with flowers, where we saw a man dangerously jump off an excited horse that sprinted into the bushes, and […]

How an infant grows in just 2 weeks! He called me ‘nanny’, what a joyous moment, to be granted a name. ‘Ayumi’ is a bit too difficult to pronounce. ‘Nanny’, sure, I like that.
It’s been a long 2 weeks in England. At times, Paul and I felt like we stumbled into a family soap opera. […]

So the surprise to Paul last weekend started with an American Indian ceremony on Alcatraz and extended two nights at a hot spring camp site.

Can you tell which way we’re going along the California coast?

Evan and Erin, do you recognize this bridge?

“Best gift is the present”. Haha, cheezy cheezy.