by Nan Rae | Apr 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
It began with an inspiring Salon on the Spiritually Creative Life hosted by Wondrous Carol Soucek King, with this month’s guest speaker being Brilliant Satinder Dhiman, Ph.D., EdD, Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program and Professor of...
by Nan Rae | Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Special thanks to Sensei Michael Belzer, President of the ‘Friends of Shoseian,’ a non-profit founded to maintain and preserve the beauty and serenity of the Shoseian Teahouse and the Japanese Friendship Garden, for again asking me to participate in the...
by Nan Rae | Mar 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
There’s always the promise of a better day, and a rainbow is meant to tell us that! You’ll see one further down, but for now, I will share delights along the way. Awesome Sherry Dewane shepherds the ‘Play Review’ group and gets the most amazing...
by Nan Rae | Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
It pours! Coming from Chicago, I know weather, and what happens out here in sunny California is rarely that….until now. My gosh, you’d think I’d melt, but there’s no going out in downpours! Sadly I canceled quite a few things but found out that...
by Nan Rae | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the highlights of our group trip to Japan was the privilege of being in a private residence, partaking of a tea ceremony, dressed in antique kimonos. Our gracious hostess held up a Kanji and told us…’This is a moment in time that will never come...
by Nan Rae | Feb 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
because we were sequestered for the first week missing the rehearsal for Marriage of Figaro and the Chinese celebration for the Year of the Rabbit at the Huntington Botanical Gardens. Kita the Akita was quite pleased with the situation as her friends came by to walk...
