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maybe she was just passing through...

posted about 1 month ago, updated 40 minutes later | 6 comments
I have carried this story with me for well over a year now.

I have no explanation for what happened that night at dusk in mid June 2007 but something definitely happened.

I don’t even know how to begin telling the story to do it justice.

Those ...

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It's totally different this year...

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 1 hour later | 9 comments
Tomorrow is the first day of school for Bella.

I think back to her first day of school two years ago…it was a very different situation.
Her father had left abruptly a couple of weeks before.
Bella and I had gone on a ‘girl’s weekend’ to Balmorhe...

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the heart of Saturday night...

posted about 1 month ago, updated 11 minutes later | 4 comments
Ever have one of those weekends where it all just all falls into place?

I have had one of those and the best part is that it is only Saturday night.

I had a good Friday night…although the shouting in the alley was a bit disturbing, I think it wo...

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the barrio is loud tonight...

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 8 hours later | 3 comments
Tonight the streets and alleys are loud…

I live in a loud neighborhood.
I sometimes wished I lived in a quiet neighborhood where people are quiet after the sun goes down.
I think that day is coming...
but here, that's when it seems to get the lou...

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'Now's the time...'

posted about 1 month ago, updated 15 minutes later | 7 comments
Sometimes there just seems to be too much to do in a day or even a week.

Case in point…my house and yard.
Well actually, my house and yard and laundry and work and child and playtime and cat and dog.
I can usually handle it but lately I have bee...

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the bull was really a lamb...

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 1 hour later | 5 comments
He was a big and proud man…six feet tall with broad shoulders and strong arms.

His name was Doug.
Douglas…
I ended up calling him dad...he was my DougDad.

We met in 1966. He was such a quiet man…still waters really do run deep.
My dad was a tal...

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Betty, Shelley and the three Fates...

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 7 hours later | 9 comments
Today as I drove to work I saw a person lying on the sidewalk in the barrio under a thin blanket, sleeping…people walked around...
I don’t know if was a ‘him’ or a ‘her’…but a person definitely.

Just made me pause enough to think about my life a...

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Moroccan chicken tagine, Mikimoto pearls & bonbons

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 5 hours later | 6 comments
Getting a package in the mail is always a treat, isn't it?

Yesterday, I received a package from France…I opened it and it contained some food items...including chocolate bonbons...

...some saffron spice wrapped in lovely paper packaging with Fre...

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North, East and the southwest...

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 24 hours later | 8 comments
'From the far side of the ocean..if I put the wheels to motion..and I stand with my arms behind me..
and I'm pushin' at the door.
Could you find me?'

Well, finally…Van Morrison has videos available on ‘YouTube!’

Van is the Man… don't you know?

...

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Carmina Burana is not all about the 'Omen'...

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 11 hours later | 6 comments
Carmina Burana.

I first heard this music when I was living with a family around age 16…

The mother of this family was a painter, a teacher and a bohemian.
Born in the hills of North Carolina she had a sweet accent that I loved.

Her name was Vi...

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