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Houseguests #3: GPS
We've had a host of house guests in Casa Colando, California: most interesting, some sublime, some ridiculous, some petty, a nervy test to the nerves. Reader beware, lest the latter people come to inhabit your house. A couple called, saying that they were flying to...
…”when I’m 64″
We were celebrating a big birthday and an 'all-clear' from cancer for me. My husband and I had also endured an intense period of deaths, pitfalls, and passages in the prior year, and we needed to culminate our grieving with some kind of commemorative trophy....
The mind wanders
This post was written in late February as I awaited a scheduled surgery date. I acted on my faithful friend's wisdom, that, what the mind doesn't know, it invents...I sidetracked worry into its own dead end, not allowing it to blight my day or night. I utilized my...
the Book of Daniel
I took a blank paged book to Africa, to write in everyday impressions, facts, experiences. It's a habit that we gleaned from my parents, the intrepid travelers we impersonate. We noticed that they recalled each of their trips in vibrant details, complete with facts...
Lawyer Up
As you may recall I am a process-oriented person, not a product-oriented person. So it was not what happened, but how it happened that shook me to my core. I was seated in my car, just a few minutes before 5:00 on a week day, stashing the dry cleaning receipt in the...
Dream Saver
I have a nighttime talent that goes beyond sleep and sex: I awaken whenever dreams go awry with malicious, malevolent content. Seriously. The nightmares are infrequent, thank goodness, for the villains are vibrantly real, the faces fully recognizable - and, if I ever...
Life as the Wheel of Fortune
I made several attempts to post this sign so that all of the message words showed, but the edges remained clipped. I've decided to post it as is...for isn't this an apt depiction of daily life?!! We seldom are able to read all of the signs fully, readily, clearly....
I used to ski, but never naked
Recipe: Knock You Naked Brownies Prep Time: 15 Minutes | Cook Time: 23 Minutes | Difficulty: Easy | Servings: 12 Ingredients 1 box (18.5 Ounce) German Chocolate Cake Mix 1 cup finely chopped Pecans 1/3 cup Evaporated Milk 1/2 cup Evaporated Milk (additional) 1/2...
Irvine Meadows Amphitheater
The amphitheater signage has been replaced and soon the razing of the superfine outdoor musical arena will start. Dusty yellow megaton Caterpillars will crawl about the natural bowl of the earth to imbibe all man-made materials: gobble, gobble, chomp. The hills will...
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