There Is Adventure in Our Blood

                       

         Jacqueline, my dearest lovely little sister is fifteen years younger than me, thirteen years younger than my brother, and she is spoiled.

Splurge

We had a brunch splurge at Golden Corral.

Look what I ate for the price of $7.99. Good deal!!!

Homemade Chili Sauce

I have a large harvest of peppers.  

Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Chris Isaak 2012 concert in San Francisco

The Beach

       Last week we went to Santa Cruz. We arrived around noon; unloaded our beach 

I laughed my guts out over this.

The woods

            A small strip of woods borders the rear of my property. I spent an hour one evening 

Book Club

I don’t know how you’ll think of a “Book Club”, as for me, if you asked me a year 

Women are biologically superior to men and, thus, live longer

Why Is the Life Expectancy Longer for Women Than It Is for Men?

Women Are Biologically Superior to Men and, thus, Live Longer.

Change

What I’ve changed the most in these years are my attitude and my appearance. My attitude had changed from “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today” to “Never do today what I can put off until tomorrow” which means I don’t 

Are they just words

 
 We wrote on paper before all the new technology. We can simply burn it just like I did a couple days before I moved to the US. It disappeared forever.

Pineapple cake

I am supposed to study for my final.

I am supposed to be on a diet.

Aging Artfully

I read an article on today’s newspaper. It says: 

“As people grow older, creative side of the brain often comes alive.”

I am spoiled.

I am spoiled

Is Lack of Civility Worldwide?

        In 2005, I flew to Shanghai. When I was trying to retrieve my suitcases, I could not get close to the carousel 

July Is a Good Month

Started my half century birthday celebration.

Maggie Bags

          I haven’t used a handbag or any sort of bag for 10 years. Where do I put all my stuff? My secretary, Mick’s pockets. HA!

Burrito night

Burrito get together for our French Canadian visitors.

自己做鹹蛋

蛋洗乾淨 我用雞蛋

The Shed

Before the shed, we had a swimming pool with a deck.

My San Francisco Cruise

Treasure Island

Food Attack

Curry Chicken

It’s been almost two months since I have eaten PURE white rice. It was the first thing that came to my mind when I woke up this morning--- curry chicken with WHITE rice, so I dug up Peggy’s recipe...

http://english.tw/blog-196884-22616.php

and here we go…

Shooting an Elephant

http://alexgolec.github.io/orwell/elephant

That night the image of the dying elephant hovered in my mind and made it very difficult for me to fall asleep. Why did Orwell write down the story 10 years after shooting the 

How We Met--- Was It April Fool’s Day for Yu?

                                                                                      

      He asked me: “What’s your name?” on Nov. 8th, 1990.

      “I don’t have an English name. Why don’t you give me one?” I answered.

      He looked at the tiny peanut on the necklace I wore and said: “How about…Peanut?”

      “OK.”