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A very Happy New Year to you!!! So after a truly delightful and busy holiday season, I’ve been doing my usual meditating (as opposed to actually doing anything) on the subject of New Year’s Resolutions. I reviewed my 2025 successes and failures, quizzed friends, and did some online research – In the end though, the […]
Seasons Greetings! Can’t believe it’s time again to close out the year with my traditional haphazard poem! It’s an account of as many events as I can fit in (and with all their feels…), meant to be read in the style of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. So, no more prose – here it goes! […]
Okay so sort of by accident, I’ve been learning more about “mindfulness” lately! (Although with a World Series Game starting shortly, it’s hard to be entirely “in the moment” just now…) While I can sure use the education, it’s been coming in forms I definitely didn’t expect! I mean, bathing-wise, I’ve always been a practitioner […]
Happy Official Autumn! So every time I aim to close out the year strongly by focussing on professional matters, my thoughts drift off to the lazy days of summer (the active ones, too!) when I got to indulge in some of my very favorite pastimes… For one, I fed my love of history! I got […]
Okay, yes – the common cliche is “Washington Slept Here”. And on a recent trip back east, I did find the spot where ol’ George famously took his troops over the Delaware River: But truth be told, the real historical highlight was touring the Connecticut house where Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, wrote some of […]
Whew! Just got home from a marvelous visit with friends back East! Being lazy, I haven’t quite unpacked all my clothes yet. And being overwhelmed in every good way by the trip, I haven’t unpacked all my thoughts about it either. For now, I can share something like the ol’ quickie Five Cent Tour of […]
One of my favorite things about traveling is getting to make connections I never expected! I just had the pleasure of wandering into a historical connection between my favorite California coastal haunt and a small town about 400 miles away – Their link was media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. While I’d known about Hearst’s habit […]
Me: “Hey Siri! When was gold first discovered in California?” Siri: “Gold was discovered in California on January 24, 1848.” Yup. Having been born in the Golden State and raised on its history, that’s the answer I expected. And normally, as with other Siri-ish replies for weather or the nearest gas station, I’d have accepted […]
Heyyy, welcome back to my personal saga of San Francisco! Like I said before, my connection goes beyond me and back to family like my great aunt Martha who called the City home from the 1940’s, and to another Martha who set up shop there – quite literally – long before that. So last time, […]
I sure hope you’ve got the kind of friends I’m lucky to have! Ones you might not see for ages and then get back together with and it’s as if no time has passed? What a gift that is! Certain places have that feel for me too. Visiting London last summer was just like catching […]
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