Housekeeping

This is a blog shared by four friends.

K.F. McDowell is an Irishwoman by heritage, a Petaluman by choice, and an organizer by vocation. Her husband proudly calls her a “sexy wife and a passionate mother.” She enjoys music, home-cooked gourmet foods, books of all sorts, and matching her quick wit against willing conversation partners. She and her husband currently own and operate an organic dairy farm in their beloved hometown where they intend to raise a brood of little ranch hands.

C.S. Doemner is a visionary.  She relishes sharing her dreams, both the brilliant and bizarre. In May, she graduated with an M.B.A. from Biola University, after which she began her own company. She is blissfully married to her first love and learning how to stepmother his nine-year-old son. Her interests include but are by no means limited to art, food & wine, hospitality, Greco-Roman mythology, politics, building forts and the GTB.

R. Card Hyatt is, by profession and vocation, a secondary language arts teacher.  When she is not in the classroom or exploring Los Angeles, she periodically reads, runs/cycles/swims, watches horror films with her husband, and cooks large meals.  She welcomes additions to her dinner table in all forms, especially, people, conversations, and wine.

D. Carroll is a researcher, writer, and editor with an insatiable curiosity. Currently residing in London with her husband (who is pursuing his PhD) and son (who is learning how to talk), she relishes exploring cities, watching people, and learning new stories. Other abiding interests include economics, classical ballet, methods of communication, and global politics.

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We write for many reasons; some shared, some not.  We write of our conversations, readings, cooking, and the view out the nearest window.  We believe that a life, well-lived, is worth examination.  Enjoy the conversation.

“On the other hand, if I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living for men, you will believe me even less.  What I say is true, gentlemen, but it is not easy to convince you.”

Plato, Apology (38a)

Our photographs are the work of the beautiful and talented Shannon Leith.