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Dance in the Rain

I relocated to the Southern Cali mountains in June, 1999. That summer our community saw a lot of rain – and thank goodness it did, because I’d rented a miniscule, 500-square-foot cabin without air conditioning and trust me, my friends, it gets hot here. That change of residence was the end result of planning started a [...]

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Test by fire

I live in the mountains fifty miles east of San Diego, at an elevation of about 4,000 feet. People are often surprised to learn it snows here in Southern California – not a lot, and not as heavily as twenty years ago – but we’ve had a couple of good storms over the years, and [...]

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Life’s Most Awesome Moments: My List & Why I Need It

I confessed to being a List Person in my last post and promised an actual accounting of one of my favorite lists: The Most Awesome Moments of My Life. And because there are no coincidences, it just happened to work out that I needed it desperately today. After complaining to Twitter friends about my alarming [...]

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Ode to the blank page: My take on writer’s block

‘Twas brillig… no, stay, pen – it’s been done! As has the road I’ve traveled on been much discussed to my chagrin I feel subject options wearing thin! Geez, what shall I blog about today? Good grief. I sweat the whiteness of the page, empty still of words and I am close to giving voice [...]

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Messages

My dog and I come to the lake to walk, this year along a shoreline made vast after last winter’s lack of rain. On any given day, few strangers overtake us on the path – much less break their reverie long enough to call a greeting – but when they do, my companion stays close [...]

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