Category Archives: Experience

Funny things happen in life. Sometimes you just gotta tell somebody.

Book Reviews: Susan Hunter Mysteries

May 24, 2013 by tchistorygal

I love a good mystery, and these Eastern/Midwestern setting, Susan Hunter mysteries are all fun and “easy breezy” reading. I’m writing one post about several of these books for several reasons. First and most obvious is that they are all mysteries. Secondly, they do not fit the profile of being literature that I would recommend for English teachers aligning with the Common Core standards which support reading primarily non-fiction materials. Third, I do feel that they are worth reviewing because […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience • Tags: books, Literature

Investing Before and During Retirement

May 23, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today I thought I would write about investing for retirement. I didn’t invest by doing anything difficult or brilliant, but I am pleased with my outcome at this point. When I started teaching I was fortunate to have a wise investment counselor who told me “cash is trash,” and taught me to invest the maximum I could from my income into a 403 B. I did this faithfully for the 20+ years I worked as an educator. I invested in […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience, Real Estate, Retirement • Tags: CA, Investing, Investing for retirement, Marsha Lee Photography, real estate, Vince Ingrao, Visalia

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

May 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

Visited by thousands of readers in more than 155 countries around the world, LetsBeWild.com is all about getting people outside – the great outdoors is where it’s at when it comes to having fun & living life to the fullest! Our Wild Weekly Photo Challenge encourages bloggers to head into the wild (or the backyard) and photograph something that they feel fits the weekly theme. Once you’ve posted your blog entry, comment on the Challenge theme that you’re entering with […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: Beaches, Bravo Lake, Marsha Lee, photography, Wild Weekly Photo Challenge 31

Here Robert has us gathered at Huntington Park across from Grace Cathedral.

Alfred Hitchcock In SF

May 21, 2013 by tchistorygal

As I begin to compose this post, I am listening to the stories about the tornadoes in Oklahoma, and I’m so sorry for those of you who are dealing with those horrendous storms. I have to stop writing and watch the news. This post will have to wait until tomorrow. The tornadoes are more frightening than anything that Hitchcock imagined, and more urgent for you to watch and read as well. My thoughts and prayers are with those who are […]

Rate this:

Categories: architecture, California, Experience, San Francisco • Tags: Argonaut Book Shop, Fairmont Hotel, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, SF Walking Tour, Vertigo, Vertigo Hotel

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

May 20, 2013 by tchistorygal

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my dad’s mom. I never even think of her very often, but when I saw this picture from Sethsnap, I escaped back to my childhood, and remembered my Grandma Tressie Lee. Seth invited us to write something about the picture, so I escaped into the picture for about a half an hour […]

Rate this:

Categories: About, Experience, Family, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Billy Graham, Escape, life in the 1950s, Marsha Lee, Oral Roberts, paint by number, WP Photo Challenge

Like, Free Speech?

May 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

I don’t usually write about news or controversial articles on my blog, but I can’t resist this one. I just read an online article “Is Liking Something On Facebook An Act Of Free Speech?” on WebProNews. “Last year, a Virginia judge ruled that a Facebook “like” is not protected by the First Amendment. The story goes like this: Deputy Sheriff Daniel Ray Carter of Hampton, Virginia “liked” the page of “Jim Adams for Hampton Sheriff.” Carter’s boss, Sheriff B.J. Roberts, […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience

San Francisco Walking Tour

May 16, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sixty-seven percent of you wanted to read more about the walking tours we took. (that’s about 4 of you!) Walking tours in San Francisco are free, ours were both well attended. On Saturday we walked a mile around the very flat Embarcadero area, and on Sunday we hiked UP Taylor Street to California and spent two hours exploring the old haunts of Alfred Hitchcock. Fortunately we did that tour during the daylight hours, and there were no birds out, […]

Rate this:

Categories: architecture, California, Experience, Photography, San Francisco • Tags: alfred hitchcock, clock tower, neiman marcus, San Francisco Embarcadero, San Francisco walking tours

Norton I, Emperor of the United States…

May 15, 2013 by tchistorygal

Joshua Abraham Norton came from England to the United States, and like thousands of others rushed to California to enlarge his already hefty fortune of $40,000. After amassing up to $250,000 at his peak, Norton eventually lost his fortune and his sanity. Losing his sanity, however, did not affect his ability to make an impact on his community. Good-looking, with a TOUCH of grandiosity, he declared himself Emperor of the United States, fired the President, and abolished Congress through a series […]

Rate this:

Categories: California, history-social science, San Francisco • Tags: Emperor Norton I, Joshua Abraham Norton, Marsha Lee, San Francisco history

Founded in 1851, about the same time Tulare County was established.

WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

May 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

As Sarah Rosso says, “Patterns are everywhere. Patterns are sometimes intentional and sometimes accidental. They can be decorative or merely a result of repetition, and often patterns can be in the eye of the beholder to discover them.” I love lines and shadows, bricks and glass. Patterns can be numbers. like how many petals on a flower, or leaves on a stem, or points on a leaf. My friend Jean and I just got back from San Francisco. This beautiful church, […]

Rate this:

Categories: architecture, art, California, Challenges, Common Core, Education, San Francisco, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Yerba Buena Gardens

The Eyes Have It

May 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

Who’s eyes are these anyway? If you know, you are a better authority on who’s who in San Francisco than I am. I’ll post a little more of his face, and see if you can recognize him. Can you guess his era? How about his nationality? This shows a little more of him. I erased part of the paper behind him, leaving just a little clue. So if you have guessed his name, do you know what he did in […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience

Happy Mother’s Day

May 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Every so often her birthday fell on Mother’s Day, and this is one of them. She lived to be the ripe old age of 80, and we had 55 wonderful years together. Well most of them were wonderful. I’m sure she had a few that were troublesome, but not many. We were best friends. One of the things I loved about my mother was her smile. Even after she lost all her […]

Rate this:

Categories: About, Experience • Tags: Mother's Day

My friend Elane. Yes, I spelled it right.

My First Yoga Class

May 8, 2013 by tchistorygal

This weekend after my meeting in Los Angeles, and my dentist’s appointment in Brentwood, I spent a couple of days with my friend, Elane Geller. Elane is amazing. At age 70+ she can run circles around most of us. She was a special speaker at a high school on Tuesday, so she did two lectures, then we went out to a restaurant to meet two more students so she ended up doing an impromptu third session. Then on Wednesday we […]

Rate this:

Categories: About, Experience, food, Travel • Tags: Umami Burgers, Yoga class

The Paso Place to Go

May 5, 2013 by tchistorygal

A few weeks ago we had lunch with our friends Spencer and Margaret in Paso Robles, CA. Paso has the best of both worlds. You have just exited the most soporific road trips through the hills past Kettleman City. Unless I’m driving, I sleep through these hills. El Paso del Robles, passage of the Oaks, is an old western town dividing the two worlds, the desert heat of the Kettleman City hills and the Tulare Lake Basin, and the Central […]

Rate this:

Categories: architecture, California, mountains, Photography, San Luis Obispo County • Tags: Marsha Lee, Paso Robles Inn, Road trip, Vallecation

See the Very First Website i.e. the Entire Internet, as it was in 1992

May 1, 2013 by tchistorygal

Reblogged from sharechair: It seems this is a week for anniversaries! A few days ago it was the 10th anniversary of iTunes, and today, April 30, is the grand-daddy web-anniversary of them all. This was the day, in 1993, that the very first website went public (royalty free) (although the website had actually existed since 1991 as a work-in-progress). CERN (the organization that is responsible for creating web standards) has chosen to celebrate the WWW anniversary by returning the original […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience

The WordPress Family Award

April 30, 2013 by tchistorygal

Eunice from Nutsfortreasure awarded me this special award. The WordPress Family Award is reserved for folks in Cyberspace who are unceasingly kind, sympathetic, encouraging, and open to laughter – and who keep each other going by sharing, commenting, and making personal connections even though they may actually be virtual strangers. Rules: Display the award logo on your blog. Link back to the person who nominated you. Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family. […]

Rate this:

Categories: Experience • Tags: awards, blogging, WordPress Family Award

Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

April 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

Even in 1855 few humans had choose between living in an enchanted forest with fairies or living with humans, between dwelling in a forested utopia or in a nation about to be torn by the most devastating war in the history of the United States, or between becoming immortal or remaining mortal. Cian, a fairy whose Gaelic name meant ancient, dreamed about the coming of a secret child to the hidden community of fairies who inhabited the forest known as […]

Rate this:

Categories: Books, Experience • Tags: Book Hub, celtic mythology, Christine Louise McNamera, Marsha Lee, Marti Healy, sci-fi, Secret Child

Bellavista

April 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

As a native Hoosier, my tendency is to be hospitable. My mother always loved to have company, and it didn’t matter when you came, if she was home, she would get you a glass of iced tea or Pepsi, and you all would sit down and visit. At Grandma’s that visit also included a walk through the yard to see what had bloomed since the day before when you were last there. I guess I haven’t outgrown that upbringing. Even […]

Rate this:

Categories: About, Family, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: family, hospitality, landscaping, Marsha Lee, yard art

Word a Week Challenge: Worker

April 25, 2013 by tchistorygal

I found this A Word A Week Challenge browsing your websites. Workers, are they professional, blue-collar, amateurs learning a hobby? Are workers those who work outside or inside? Is work physical or mental, or both? Genesis tells us that six days God worked, and on the seventh day God rested. I’m sure his work involved a bit of thought and creativity as well as some pretty heavy lifting – even if He was just filling craters with water and […]

Rate this:

Categories: agriculture, Challenges, Experience, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: A Word A Week Challenge, Marsha Lee, photography, social studies lesson, workers

← Older posts

Marsha Lee

Streaming Thoughts

Category Archives: Experience

Book Reviews: Susan Hunter Mysteries

Rate this:

Investing Before and During Retirement

Rate this:

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge: #32 The Beach

Rate this:

Alfred Hitchcock In SF

Rate this:

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Rate this:

Like, Free Speech?

Rate this:

San Francisco Walking Tour

Rate this:

WordPress Photo Challenge: Pattern

Rate this:

The Eyes Have It

Rate this:

Happy Mother’s Day

Rate this:

My First Yoga Class

Rate this:

The Paso Place to Go

Rate this:

See the Very First Website i.e. the Entire Internet, as it was in 1992

Rate this:

The WordPress Family Award

Rate this:

Book Review: The Secret Child by Marti Healy

Rate this:

Bellavista

Rate this:

Follow “Marsha Lee”

May 2013
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
« Apr
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31