Today I got news that one of my clients from the Poway Senior Center died. I had delivered food to him for over a year. Wednesday the 22nd was my last day at the Poway center. Oscar died on the 23rd, making me one of the last people to see him alive. I believe he […]

Last week was spent stripping out my kitchen of its cupboard doors and refinishing them and repainting the entire kitchen itself. It was something I had had on the work sheet for over two years since my grandmother died in early 2001. The cabinets had been in her favorite color: yellow. Two tones of the […]

So far, things are looking up. For you astute readers of TAPKAE.com who are in the know, things got pretty bad around here for most of the summer, and desperate in early September. Y’all can read about that on the 2003 page above if this is coming as news to you. The meds seem to […]