Sylvan Sanctuary

 During Karen M.'s deposition, our lawyer Andrea had asked her exactly who was present in the office on the afternoon I collected P. fro...

I had to wonder why so many CUSD employees, particularly in the administration, behaved as one body. They were consistently arrogant, indiff...

  Summer school was held at Dilworth Elementary, in the city of San Jose. It seemed ideal. A school bus picked P. up from our house every mo...

However, at that time, P.'s diagnosis was still uncertain. And so it was that in 2001, at the age of seven, she started out in a special...

I have been using my time during the pandemic to continue what has been an on-again, off-again project for the past 15 years -- writing a bo...

For many of us, 2020 was a very challenging year. I am not ready to write about it yet, so I will simply acknowledge here that it happened. ...

So last night I tried a, for us, novel take on the old vegetarian standby of tofu and rice. I made a  garlic pineapple sauce  (I substitut...