Her Birthday
My Father's Advice
A Seashell
Smoke and Mirrors
Family History, Memoir, Nature, Ranch Lifecynthiachange, daughter, fire, Gaviota, graduation, growing up, memoir, Santa Barbara
I Have Seen A Manatee
Family History, Memoircynthiafamily, family visits, gratitude-, grief, loss, manatee, nature, reunions, Thanksgiving
There Was No Map
Filomena
Summer Settles In: A Re-Run
Memoir, Family Historycynthiadaughters growing up, light, my mother, ranch life, small pleasures, summer, Orange County, my mother in law, my sister, memories
Gnomes and Ghosts and Other Things
Family History, MemoircynthiaAirstream trailers, coping with loss, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, family history, friends, friendship, gnomes, grief, Mary Oliver, memories, trunk of pain, William Stafford