When the Almond Tree Blooms

Happy Holidays! I wanted to give a little update to all of you who’ve been reading my blog posts this fall. I’m going to drink some tea, write a little and listen to Drake’s Take Care . The album brings me back to the beginning of 2012, when I’d drive on I-5 into Sacramento, away from the loneliness of the rice farm where I worked to my unlikely haven, a financial accounting class at Sac City College. Winter Wheat at Sills Farms, January 2012 (I disced this field) I first started blogging in 2008, the heyday of blogs. I didn’t use social media much at the time, I had a facebook account I hardly ever checked and I didn’t get a smart phone until four years later. Blogging was a hobby, I’d post a few photos, write a paragraph about pupusas one week, or a blurb about The Wire or hiking in the Bay Area. I had fun with it, interacting with random people who stumbled across my blog and checking out their blogs. Uncle Marc's Christmas dessert, 2009 My blog morphed into a...

I want to share some news with those of you still read this long-neglected blog: I got a job.   After I finish my Master of Professional Accountancy at UC Davis this June, I’ll be working full time for the California State Auditor in Sacramento.   I received the job offer and accepted it back in February; I meant to share this sooner but was deeply involved in my classes until I finished finals last week.     UC Davis Sunset When I took my first accounting course over two years ago, this isn’t where I imagined I’d end up.   I became interested in accounting through agriculture.   At first I knew little about what a CPA does and whether or not that’s what I wanted to become.   I figured I could take a couple more accounting classes and find a job at some farm business in the area, where hopefully I’d get a little hands-on accounting experience.   At the beginning of 2012 I realized I needed to leave the farm.   I’d had enough...