Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tehachapi Treasure Trove is pleased to be able to open again for First Fridays and we look forward to seeing our regulars and newcomers for more laughter and camaraderie every month. As usual, on September 3 from 5 to 8 p.m., we'll be offering beverages and snacks and a place and a time to reconnect with old friends or meet new ones, plus we'll be featuring the wonderful music of Art Larson. We're also excited that classes have started back up at the Treasure Trove and are continuing through...
First and foremost I want to offer a big thank you to ... well, I don't really actually know whom to thank. Last week I had a late lunch at Village Grill before going back to my store to get ready for First Friday – a little break in a very full and long day. I was alone with a good book and I took my time, enjoying reading and eating a delicious hot beef sandwich. When it came time to go I waited for the waitress to bring me my bill. When she did come by my table she just told me to have a n...
My dad always loved the idea of flying, of being up in the air. As a kid he made paper and wood airplanes, and learned as much as he could about flying. And when the time came he joined the Navy and learned to fly for himself. He was a Navy pilot for 10 years. One thing led to another and he left the Navy, went back to school and became a doctor, and eventually bought his own airplane, a Beechcraft Debonair which we named Tocamasa (letters from the names of our little family of four). As a...
Tehachapi Treasure Trove is happy to announce that First Fridays are back and growing! Downtown has reopened and we are once again able to offer our First Friday event to celebrate local art and artists. We'll be open from 5 to 8 p.m. on Aug. 6 for your shopping pleasure. We are so pleased to be able to open again for First Fridays and look forward to seeing our regulars for more laughter and camaraderie. As usual we'll be offering beverages and snacks, and a place and time to reconnect with...
My friend Arlene called one day to let me know that her 18-year-old daughter was moving out of the house and into her own apartment. Arlene was understandably a little sad, but she was also a little ecstatic. This daughter was the last of four kids to move out, and that meant that my friend would finally have the house to herself. In fact, she was pretty excited to think that now she won't have to wonder what's left in the fridge, or where the scissors are, or even where a pen is. She'll know...
Ever since I grew up enough to be aware that the American ideal and the American reality are two distinctly different things, I've had a variety of mixed feelings about the Fourth of July. On the one hand I am full of wonder and awe and gratitude at the story of our hard-won and hard-kept freedoms; on the other, I am filled with sadness and fear and sometimes disbelief about the freedoms some of us seem willing to deny certain other groups of American citizens on a daily basis. On July 4, 1776,...
First Fridays are back! Now that downtown has reopened we are once again able to offer our First Friday event to celebrate local art and artists. We’ll be open 5 to 8 p.m. on July 2 for your shopping pleasure. We are so pleased to be able to open again for First Fridays and look forward to seeing our regulars for more laughter and camaraderie. As usual we’ll be offering beverages and snacks and a place and a time to reconnect with old friends. We’re also excited that classes have started back...
For some reason, mothers and Mother's Day seems to be a much bigger deal than fathers and Father's Day. Dads tend to get taken for granted sometimes, and perhaps not thanked or acknowledged as often as they should be. Nevertheless, Father's Day is coming up and this is as good a time as any to recognize that special dad in your life (or anyone who has taken on that role for you). Some of my favorite quotes on fathers and Fatherhood: "Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers...
I know that the official start of summer isn't for a couple of weeks yet (that is, June 21), but thanks to the weather and the Memorial Day weekend, I feel like summer has finally arrived. And I'm loving it! I hardly remember last summer at all. I know my store was closed for a couple of months while we were trying to figure out this new pandemic thing, and when we reopened, everything was different. And we were not alone. Many other businesses shut down for a few weeks, some never reopened. My...
Memorial Day is coming up and for many of us, the three-day Memorial Day weekend signals the beginning of summer activities like picnics, swimming, vacations and summer softball. It may be the weekend you start on your yard work or plant the flower boxes; it may be a good time for a long motorcycle ride or a long session on the chaise lounge with a good book. It can still be pretty cool in the mountains but it's still a weekend that many like to go camping for the first time in the year. This...
We are pleased to announce that we will once again be able to offer classes and community events at Tehachapi Treasure Trove. Because of the pandemic, we have had to put all of our classes, open studios and First Friday celebrations on hold but now that things are opening up, we are filling our schedule with fun and creative things for people to do and learn. First Fridays are back! Starting June 4, we will be open on the first Friday of each month, from 5 to 8 p.m., to celebrate local art and...
Mother's Day last year was difficult for many because of the pandemic and not being able to be with mothers and grandmothers and aunts and sisters. This year, while we are so close to being free of those restrictions, we still are not quite there yet. Zoom meetings and video calls are still not the same as face-to-face visits. Nevertheless, we'll celebrate the day and the women (and some very special men) who love us unconditionally and care for us to the best of their abilities. I'm...
Back in the day, my folks loved to take us kids for a drive on Sunday afternoons, after church, and a nice Sunday dinner. I guess I inherited that tendency for I love to take drives, Sundays or otherwise, any time I can, anywhere I am. I did such a thing on Easter Sunday this year, after treating myself to a nice breakfast out. Taking a drive seemed a no-brainer. The day was beautifully sunny and warm, and as it turned out, my timing was great in a way I wasn't expecting. I was hoping I might se...
The Coronavirus stole my January as I was home sick for a couple of weeks, then in Tehachapi Hospital for eight days. Then home again to recover. And, actually, the recovery part took an additional couple of months, which is largely why I haven't been around much lately, and why I have this one more column to write about it. I'm feeling pretty much back to normal these days – whatever "normal" is – and grateful to be alive. I'm a former smoker. I haven't had so much as a puff since 1993, but...
In early January I was fighting what I thought was a head cold. Sniffles and stuffiness. Then it went into my chest, making me cough up all kinds of gunk, and breathing became a little difficult. I was exhausted; I was sleeping all day in my recliner and sleeping all night in my bed. I wasn't eating anything because my sense of taste was gone and I couldn't smell anything either. Being in a state of denial, I insisted it was just a really bad cold and I stayed home from work. I ached all over...
I'm happy to tell you I'm all moved into my new place (although I'm far from being all unpacked), and I'm ready for the new year. So very ready. The year 2020 has universally been regarded as a tough year in many different ways and for many different reasons. I can personally vouch for that perspective as I've had my own set of challenges as well as dealing with national ones like the vicious virus. But as bad as the year has been, there have been some bright spots and some good things...
Here's another one of those sweet stories that has been sent to me via the wonderfully prolific Internet. Alas, like so many of these things, this one is marked "Author Unknown." I hope you enjoy its message as much as I did: A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the four pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy....
They say it takes a village to raise a child, and I've written about how it also took a village to get me through my knee replacements and various other surgeries. Indeed, what would we do without the help of friends in our times of need? It turns out it also takes a village to make a major move (as in moving from one house to another); in other words, what would we do without the help of strangers, either, every now and then? I made the decision to downsize and move to a smaller place some...
Usually this time of year I like to write about how I love October, the month of Halloween, especially because of all the dark and scary movies that are on television. I'm not necessarily a big fan of dressing up or decorating for the actual Halloween holiday itself, but I do enjoy seeing other people's scary yard art and gruesome costumes. As far back as I can remember, I have always loved the telling of macabre tales and ghost stories through horror books and frightful movies and tellings...
Right off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone who hasn't been affected by some kind of cancer at one time or another, either directly or indirectly. I haven't had to deal with it personally – knock wood – but I have been in the fight with friends and family who have. I lost my mother to pancreatic cancer, and I've lost eight other friends in recent years to other cancers, including breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is always a time to remember tho...
The sky was blue, the smoke cleared for awhile, the sun was shining but there was a light breeze – last Sunday was a great day for a political rally in our dear little Tehachapi. I was one of those many people on the corner of Valley Blvd. and Tucker Rd. that day who were waving flags and wearing masks and generally spreading feelings of good cheer. It's been many years since I've attended a political rally in an election year for a specific candidate, not in small part because I live in T...
Here's another one of those wonderful little tales that makes its way through the universe by email, word-of-mouth, and/or written copy. No one knows who wrote it, but it's worth passing on because it has a wonderful reminder for us all. Here you are, the story of the Daffodil Principle: Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-haour drive from my house to hers. "I will come next Tuesday," I...
With a nod to the old joke about illegal voting, I say to you in all seriousness: "Vote early and vote often." I do not, as in the joke, mean for you to vote often in the same election. But I do mean for you to vote often as in, "Vote in every election that comes along." By the time you are reading this, both the Democratic and Republican conventions will be over and the next major election will be just a couple of short months away, meaning the campaigning on both sides and for various issues w...
I love sports. I played them all through childhood (and yes, I was the only girl who played baseball with the boys in grade school, after my parents had to raise a ruckus so the school administrators would let me) and the teen years and a good part of young adulthood. Organized sports were my thing but I also enjoyed recreational activities like hiking, biking, bowling and the occasional game of horseshoes. Some sports – like softball, basketball and volleyball – I enjoyed so much I off...
From time to time people send me things via email, most of which have no author credited. Some make me think, some make me smile. And some, like the title of the one I'm sharing today, seem very timely (even though I received it some years ago) as well as making for some thinking and smiling. Here then, for your consideration are 32 strange things to get your mind off of politics (and who doesn't want to forget politics for a minute or two?): 1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel....
