Creating family

August 22, 2011
"Family trumps everything" A favorite writer, Lolly Winston, posted this quote (by author Anna Quindlen) as her Facebook update last month. And here are a few of the...
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Flowers & squirrels; beauty & stupidity

August 22, 2011
Life on the central coast is full of little surprises.Vivid colors dot the grey coast overcast like little wrapped presents. I love wildflowers. Everything grows so well...
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Looking for an echo

August 21, 2011
My thoughts on birthdays are simple: they're better than the alternative. Still, my birthday last month was a hard one. One during which mortality and I had a...
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Thoughts on the news

August 20, 2011
In the world we live in, we can not let our kids out of your sight for a moment, because bad people lie in wait everywhere, even on the normal childhood event of a...
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Back to school already?

August 20, 2011
When I was a kid, hot August days and nights meant that summer was peaking and would soon wind down. We looked forward to going back to school in late September --...
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Drive-in movie memories

August 19, 2011
For suburban teenagers in western New York, drive-in movie theatres were a place to get some privacy and hang out with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Ok, truth: from the...
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Tie dye

August 18, 2011
There are only a few places where people still wear tie dye regularly and Big Sur's one of them. Wearing tie dye says a little something about the wearer.What does tie...
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Truth and lies

August 18, 2011
If you've ever been lied to about something important, you know this. Lies weaken the foundation of a relationship and prevent us from having a firm footing. People lie...
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Into the mystic: Pt. Lobos on the Monterey peninsula

August 18, 2011
Just south of Carmel is a beautiful state reserve: Point Lobos. The morning's thick fog and August sweatshirt weather didn't deter us from spending a couple of hours...
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Get used to it: diversity creates a cultural shift

August 17, 2011
When we moved to northern California as newlyweds some 18 months ago, we rented a house temporarily in the ethnically diverse city of Sunnyvale. I've lived part or...
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