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Green and red
Here's a map of California, showing the counties in which 62.5% of the voters passed Prop 13. Look at the red: a small land mass lost to big consequences for green, as in money. Larry and I were in California, seeking jobs, when Prop 13 passed in 1978. Our desire to...
Knot again!
Father's Day is upon us again, and my husband and I have none. Our dads are gone, but not forgotten. After my father entered the front gate of heaven, like my mother 21 months before him, we siblings and spouses joined in endeavor to clear the house where my...
Sprezzatura
sprezzatura PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh) MEANING: noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance. ETYMOLOGY: From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957. In 1957, the year of this term's earliest documented...
Knees and needs
Today my sibling, four years younger, is having double knee replacement surgery. Three months ago today, I injured my knee on a beach walk - coincident with her email announcement. Bad knees are our heritage, so I inquired of all siblings about their needs and knees,...
Living Life as a Miracle: The Yoga Path
This series of events occurred about ten years ago, in what seems like in a different century rather than recent past. It was an ambitious time in life, when everything was open and possible. It was my Saturday morning ritual to walk the two miles to a yoga...
The Power of 1
in 1921 a playwright coined the word "robot" for a science fiction play. I learned this fact at a UC Irvine lecture showcasing their center dedicated to stroke rehabilitation with the use of robotics. Credible, incredible stuff. 80 years later, the world had...
BUGS!
Here it is, at last, a brand new book for your shelf! Oh, that's right! In California we don't have bugs, though our small garden could use some help...other than the birds, raccoons, and squirrels helping themselves to our produce. Suggestions anyone? Nook or...
If you could be any other critter for a day, what would you be and what would you do?
Mystery solved
Mystery solved: the reason I most often read mystery genre books… is Justice is achieved by the end of the book.
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