Thanks Cindy, for asking about how the fire was affecting us. Allison and Cecilia checked in too. I know it is even hard for me to understand how we can live this close to Malibu and not be on fire ourselves. The mountains and canyons provide barriers to the actual fire but the smoke and ashes make their way here. This is the first morning in almost a week that we awoke to beautiful clear blues skies. It is quite a relief but so sad to see so many suffering. The temperature was uncomfortably warm all week too and kept me in from all my usual outside sports. Living with the threat of fire seems to just part of the deal here in California; odd still to someone who grew up on the east coast but as we all know each region seems to have its own unique challenges!
Anyway we are all fine and trying to find ways of helping others. Courtney's boyfriend, Steven, who has been recuperating from an injury while playing for the Bears, has been living with us and exited briefly to help his parents in Orange County pack for evacuation. Thankfully in the end they did not have to leave their house but it was close! Steven has pretty much decided to
move on from the NFL and try to find a job in the 'real' world. We are doing our best with various introductions but if any of you have ideas it would be great to hear about. One of the downsides of a liberal arts education, he is a UCLA grad, is that it really doesn't help define a careeer path. Right now he is looking at the financial services area but I would love to have him chat with people in all sorts of industries to get a more diverse mix.
I had not looked at the blog in a while so it was good to catch up on y'all! I will write more soon.
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