Five years ago today we put our first post on line. For several years before that, the two of us had been taking Meredith’s mother Margaret to various museums and historic sites around Los Angeles. We went up to see her once or twice a month at the board and care home in the San Fernando Valley where she was living at the time. Taking Margaret on those outings was both a way give her some fun diversion and also a way for us to visit with her that was interactive and meaningful. After a while we thought, if we are going to all these museums, why not review them? Our eldest daughter helped us create the blog, and we have been posting ever since.
Margaret passed away in June 2016, and not a day goes by that Meredith does not think about and miss her. We continue to blog about museums, and occasionally hikes and other discoveries. Our focus has shifted more to San Diego, but we still go up to Los Angeles from time to time on the weekend to see special exhibits at museums up north.
On our calendar for the coming months are: (1) the Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Sci-Fi and Fantasy exhibition at the Petersen Automotive Museum, which is open now and will run through March 15, 2020, and is co-sponsored by the Comic-Con Museum; and (2) the University of San Diego’s Christ: Life, Death and Resurrection art exhibition, which runs September 13 to December 13 and will include Michelangelo’s brush drawing The Three Crosses along with other Italian Renaissance master works on loan from the British Museum.