Tag Archives: Los Angeles

A Lingering Look At Windows: High Voltage Tattoo Parlor

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Tattoos anyone? It’s been a while since I posted some photos for Dawn’s A Lingering Look At Windows challenge so to get started up again, I’m spicing things up a bit. Well, for me anyway! Your average English country garden … Continue reading →

Posted in A Lingering Look at Windows, Family Life, My California, Travel | Tagged A Lingering Look at Windows, California, Family Life, High Voltage Tattoo Parlor, Hollwood, Kat Von D, LA Ink, Los Angeles, Mustang Cobra, travel | 62 Comments

The Luck of the Irish and My Californian Earthquake

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Today is St Patrick’s Day, as if you didn’t know. You would think that since I am a quarter Irish thanks to my paternal grandmother, I would be leaping about all over the place to the strains of Riverdance (and … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, My California | Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Childhood memories, Earthquakes, Emigration, Family Life, Los Angeles, News, Paso Robles, San Francisco, St Patrick's Day | 62 Comments

Ever Thankful and One Crazy Grandma

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Here we are and it’s Friday again, and time is a-flying! I had to go into town today to get a few things, ha! It was crazily busy, you would think that Christmas is just around the corner. Oh wait, … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, Guest Blogs, Mothers & Sons, My California | Tagged America, Celebrations, Childhood memories, Christmas, Cooking, Family Life, Grandma, Grandpa, Guest Blog, joy, laughter, Los Angeles, Mothers & Sons, thank you, Thanksgiving, Thomas The Tank Engine, Turkey Dinner | 47 Comments

A Little Boy’s Hand in Mine

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Once upon a time, many years ago, a three-year old boy not long to be four put his little hand into his mother’s and smiled up at her. She smiled back with reassurance and promised him that she would keep … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, Mothers & Sons, My California, Writing | Tagged America, beach, Childhood memories, Children, England, Family Life, Flight of the Navigator, Glendale, Grandparents, Growing Up, Halloween, Happy Birthday, joy, Los Angeles, love, mother's hand, Mothers & Sons, My California, Reminiscing, Sherri Matthews, travel, writing | 38 Comments

James Hadley Chase and American Pancakes

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

The first time I ever read a book by James Hadley Chase, the brilliant author of American noir genre crime novels spanning from 1939’s ‘No Orchids for Miss Blandish‘ to 1984’s ‘Hit Them Where it Hurts‘, I was all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reading, My California, Recipes | Tagged American Pancakes, Betty Crocker, Books & Reading, Britain, California, crime novels, James Hadley Chase, Los Angeles, Noir Genre, Pancake Recipe | 37 Comments

Baby, I’m Back!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Well, hello again dear readers! I have returned from my journey across that vast Atlantic sea, safe and sound, climbed back out of a sleepless void commonly known as ‘jet lag’ so that I am now managing to sleep 4 hours straight (yes, … Continue reading →