- Desert Island
- When Down is Up
- Cost is Not Bad
- Holding onto Yourself
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- Professional Writing
- Love Is a Choice
- Gardening Episode
- How to Put in Your Own Drip System—or Not
- Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery, Part 2
- Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery
- My New Succulent Garden – Part 1
- Titling
- Describe It or Sell It?
- Facebook Is Cooler than You Think
- Suicide
- When Backwards Is Forwards
- Helping Others Succeed
- It Takes All Kinds
- How Priorities Change
- Fizzling
- My Life Passed Before Me, But I Wasn’t Dead
- Suffering
- Chopping Wood
- Cleaning House – Dr’s Orders
- Writing
- Invisible Servant
- What Do You Do
- What Does Anyone Know
- Pomodoro
- Timing: NOT Everything
- Picking Up Where You Left Off
- Look! Look!
- Why ‘Affordable Housing’ Fails
- Computer Backup Hell
- In Search of Nectar
- Fake Cowgirl
- One Things that Changed My Life
- Ghost Gifts
- Birthday Pain
- Missing Thereness
- Awaiting Profundity
- Smart Superstition
- Willing to Change Your Mind About Islam?
- Happy Birthday Mother
- Feckless
- The Parental “Conversation”
- A New Wrinkle I Can Live With
- Chasing the Dragon
- TSA – the Most Hated Part of Freedom to Travel
Category Archives: Blog
Picking Up Where You Left Off
Don’t you love it when you run into a friend you haven’t seen in a long time, possibly years, and you pick up where you left off as though no time has passed? I’ve delighted in that experience and relish … Continue reading
Look! Look!
“Look, kids! Wake up and look over there, because I can’t; I’m driving.” Children drowsy during a four-day, 2000-mile cross country car trip are usually a godsend. Less squabbling. Less toy throwing. Less name calling. But as we neared Pikes … Continue reading
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Tagged first grade reading, observing beauty, primary reader, shooting stars
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Why ‘Affordable Housing’ Fails
“Many cities spent millions from 2000 to 2008 without building a single unit.” Amazing what reading local newspapers while on vacation can unearth! While I acknowledge the enforcement conundrum on contractors, what I still disagree with in municipal affordable housing … Continue reading
Computer Backup Hell
My new HP i7 laptop screen died at 2 months old. I’d purchased a 3-year service contract with Fry’s Electronics – including a loaner – so I didn’t worry too much about it. But I did call Fry’s to see … Continue reading
In Search of Nectar
I was uncomfortable, frozen in a not quite upright position, but I had to remain unnoticed. I was standing up after examining a recently pruned lower limb on my Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis). The buzz of wings alerted me to … Continue reading
Fake Cowgirl
Recently a friend proposed moving to another city to be with her boyfriend…she owns a beautifully-appointed condo here… incredibly artistic, refreshing and relaxing. It’s a spiritual experience to be welcomed into her home. He’s a sweet, gentle guy. When she … Continue reading
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Tagged authenticity, cowboys, cowgirls, fake spirituality, western regalia
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One Things that Changed My Life
Chance encounters often turn out to be important…as do comments made by friends, or observations in the presence of others, a line in a book, a title of a book you haven’t read, a chance compliment, mistaken identity, a job … Continue reading
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Ghost Gifts
The week before my birthday, I looked up and said, Mom, I’m expecting that $20 you always put in a birthday card for me to appear somewhere. I know it will. I told my friend Ruth about that and missing … Continue reading