The Bird Lady

For the holidays, I wanted to repost a fun article from the valsroad archives. I adapted this one from the summer of 2013… So I think I am spending too much time in the garden as I’ve started personifying birds. It all started with a couple of cute starlings. Three or four of them decided to take a bath in our fountain. Then, they invited... read more

Cenotaphs

On a day when I needed a change of scenery, I searched for a cemetery to visit. I found Greenwood Memorial Cemetery off Imperial Avenue in San Diego. With no traffic, it was only a 35 minute drive. I chose this cemetery for one reason, it has a private cenotaph. Cenotaph is a new term for me. It comes from the Greek for empty tomb. The full... read more

Valsroad Movie Reviews

Since we are spending more time at home in the evenings, we’ve been watching more movies than usual. I thought I’d rate four of the recent ones we’ve seen and give a plug to an upcoming one. My Spy – (PG-13) Amazon Prime. This movie puts Dave Bautista (JJ) and Chloe Coleman (Sophie) together in an action star meets precocious cute kid... read more

Valsroad 2021 Book Club Choices

The wonderful women of my book club researched over thirty books, and the top twelve made it onto our 2021 Reading List. I hope you find a few of them interesting enough to add to your own reading list. If you’d like to see all thirty books, let me know by emailing me at val@valsroad.com As always, if you are buying new books, please... read more

Real Life Hauntings

Whenever Halloween rolls around, I’m more attentive to real life hauntings. And like some people I know, I tend to share things in a set of three. When I looked into why we do this, I found there isn’t a scientific reason. It seems we look for patterns in random data. So I share with you my random data. Messages from the Past During a... read more