Davis Life Magazine

The UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery is a Davis treasure. Tours, classes, family activities and the most wonderful plant sales are big attractions here. Last Saturday Robbin Thorpe professor emeritus of entomology, and Neal Williams, assistant professor of entomology,  spoke to a chilly and windblown but enthusiastic group of gardeners about native pollinators and, in [...]

Sometimes, you just need to celebrate.  Sometimes, you just need to celebrate with a special beer.  This week was just such a time.  Our church was celebrating its first anniversary in Davis, and for me, that was more than a reason to find something special to commemorate the occasion.  Surviving the first year as a [...]

Hi.  I’m Walking Bob and I encourage you to walk, drive, bike or grab a bus down to the Davis Odd Fellows Hall to catch one of the most eloquent and nimble-fingered musicians in Davis, Dave Nachmanoff, in concert on Sunday, December 4 at 2 p.m. I was in the audience at Dave’s last local [...]

Hi. I’m Walking Bob. In the summer of 2009, I was walking up the Mace Overpass when I noticed what looked like the beginnings of a really big swimming pool near Ikeda’s.  Over the next few months I watched the East Area Tank (EAT) emerge as a water tank that holds four million gallons of water and [...]

Some things just seem to fit.  They can seem natural and not at all surprising, as if they were designed.  We talk all the time about people being meant for each other, about a career that fits us like a glove, or about parenting as something we were built for.  We all want to belong [...]