The Rice Family: The Middle Years

A few months ago I wrote a post about the early years of Brush Ranch and how my grandparents met and their love story. Well, it’s time for round two, a time period I’ve so cleverly named “The Middle Years.” If someone can come up with a better...

This Week A Year Ago: The Tres Lagunas Fire

For some reason I have a bit of an obsession with thinking about where I was or what I was doing some period of time ago. For example, this time one week ago I was just returning from Philadelphia. This time 8 years ago, Patrick and I had just returned from a 9 week...

Early Summer

When I was a kid, late May was one of my favorite times of the year. Just like every other kid in the country I looked forward to the end of the school year and the summer, but there was something else that I always loved about the last few weeks of the school year....

A New Beginning

I had a post planned for today that was all roses and butterflies, ok, well, not exactly roses and butterflies, but graduation hoods and mother’s day. But I’ll save that post for later because today is too monumental a day to just gloss over. Dad, if...

The Best Place

When my parents decided they were ready to sell a part of the Brush Ranch property a few years back and they decided to keep the 12 acres they ended up on for the last 7 or 8 years, I initially thought they were crazy. At the time, in my mind, it would have made much...