Places we’ve lived

(Anna, 1940-1951) Marysville, Michigan
(Anna, 1940-1951) Forestville, Michigan
(Anna, 1952-1958) Downey, California
(Dick, 1942-1951) Tonawanda, New York
(Dick, 1951-1960) Lemon Grove and Spring Valley, California
(Anna, 1951) Migration retrospective: MI to CA (AI-enhanced)
(Dick, 1951) Migration retrospective: NY to CA
(Dick, 1951) Johnson family migration from New York state to California
(Dick, 1951) Migration from NY to CA
(1958-1963) UCLA (Los Angeles, California)
(1963) San Diego, California
(1963-1965) Encino, California
(1965-1968) Inglewood and Torrance, California
(1968-1969) Morganville, New Jersey
(1969-1971) Cupertino, California (Medina Lane)
(1971-1986) Cupertino, California (Bel Aire Ct)
(1986-1993) San Jose, California (Almaden Valley)
(1993-1996) San Jose, California (Willow Glen)
(1996-2001) Cupertino, California (Lucky Oak Ct)
(2001-2003) El Dorado Hills, California
(2001-2020) Cupertino and San Jose, California
(2007-2009) Lyons, Colorado
(2011-2018) San Jose, California (Villages)
(2020-2022) Rohnert Park, California
(2023-current) Glen Ellen, California

Corona diaries (2020-2021)

Corona diaries #01: Work, projects, food…
Corona diaries #02: Church, hiking, running…
Corona diaries #03: Toilet paper from China
Corona diaries #04: Wildflowers, bees…
Corona diaries #05: Chalk games, art…
Corona diaries #06: Escape to Davis
Corona diaries #07: The mad elevator-button pusher
Corona diaries #08: Hiking in the Sonoma Valley and Alviso
Corona diaries #09: Shoreline nature preserve
Corona diaries #10: Urban hike at Stanford
Corona diaries #11: Hiking at Riverfront park
Corona diaries #12: Birds, wind, and water
Corona diaries #13: Lightning, fire, and smoke
Corona diaries #14: Betwixt and between
Corona diaries #15: Somo Village

Dick’s high-tech adventure

Dick’s high-tech adventure: Looking back at the 1960s
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Early experiences with computers
Chapter 3: Computers at UCLA
Chapter 4: IBM Service Bureau
Chapter 5: Bell Labs
Chapter 6: SLAC
Chapter 7: Personal computers
Chapter 8: IBM
Chapter 9: Code samples
Chapter 10: Pillar Data Systems
Chapter 11: VR Communications

Other posts

Published in 2025

50 years of running
Women in the family

Published in 2024

Halloweens, past and present (AI-enhanced)

Published in 2023

Rest in Peace, Karen Johnson Nichols (2023)

Published in 2022

Genealogy information in the 1950 census

Published in 2020

Early computer games
Dick: How I learned to draw cartoons
Roy Rogers rules
Anna: Happy Valentine’s Day from Hoppy

Published in 2019

We wanted to grow up to be cowboys
Dick: Country music in San Diego during the 1950s

Published in 2018

Anna: My most memorable Fourth of July
Anna: Halloween
Dick: Thanksgiving with the sailors

Published in 2017

Anna and Dick’s 54th anniversary

Published in 2016

Anna: Pearl Harbor
Dick: Foreign business trips in 1984
Our trips to Hawaii (1977-2015)
Our trip to the Soviet Union in 1990

Published in 2015

Anna: Honoring veterans
Anna: Honoring labor