The Zog Blog

I am thankful for so very many things. But at the top of the list, I’m thankful we’ve gone from here: To here: With no major illnesses, catastrophes, or even seriously hard times. We’ve had a wonderful year, and I’m so grateful we’re all still here. I’m thankful, too, for curiosity. And wonderful friends to [...]

This weekend we spent a wonderful Sunday with our friends Stacy, Neil, and Asher (6 months). The farmer’s market up in San Jose is larger than our Thursday market, and I tried two new foods there: Chestnuts, which we roasted tonight and which are fabulous, and pineapple guava, which I think is disgusting. We then [...]

Ah, fall. That special time of year when a boy’s mind turns to one thing: puppies. Just kidding. One of my favorite things about Jacob as a toddler is that he has such a wide range of expression with us, now. When he was very little, it was basically crying. Then crying and smiling/laughing. Now, [...]

Thank you all so much for your warm wishes, nice comments, and memories of my mother. They really mean a lot to me. I was worried that I’d really miss fall this year. (It was nonexistent in LA, and I hated that.) I needn’t have worried, though. While fall here in Monterey isn’t as pronounced [...]

Ten years ago today, my mother died. As the years go by, my memories of my mother as a separate person, as Deborah Thomas, are fading. I’m left with impressions, with the remembered aura of snuggling with her, with emotional residues of the way she made me feel. It is terrible and painful to lose [...]

Of course we had a lot of fun with Jacob’s second Halloween. Trick-or-treating still seemed like too much for him, but on Saturday we had a great party with lots of other families, old friends and new. Adults were supposed to dress up as tv characters. Jon was Jamie from the show Mythbusters, and I [...]