Moving West: remember party lines?

September 9, 2015
Chapter 6 Remember party lines? At the end of the last chapter, the boxes were piling up and I had begun to unpack, not knowing what I'd find because Bob got tired of...
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Oh boy! Poi!

September 8, 2015
Poi
We were lunching at the world's best restaurant on Maui the other day, Mama's Fish House in Paia. M pointed to a few small bowls of what looked like light chocolate...
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Are you an enabler?

September 7, 2015
enabler
It's always a surprise to me when people--parents, friends, anyone, really--fail to set limits for themselves or for their children -- or for anyone in their lives. They...
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Teachers of life, teachers of love

September 5, 2015
I ran across this bag in Maui on the weekend that Oliver Sacks and Wayne Dyer began their next great adventure. It struck me that they were two men who made their work...
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Enough about me

September 4, 2015
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These days, I find myself increasing critical of those with whom I spend my time. Critical, not in the fault-finding sense, but in the "assessment" sense. I'm not sure...
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Toughen up!

September 3, 2015
I was 16 when I had my first professional editor, on a weekly column about my high school in my town's weekly newspaper. I was paid $2 for each column, probably about...
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Always be yourself

September 1, 2015
Not too long ago, a friend referred me to a book she'd read. This is what she said: The writer makes me think of you. It's a woman who decides to go for it, in a big...
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Moving West: we learn to develop creative solutions

August 31, 2015
Chapter 5 We learn to develop creative solutions. A day and a half after our arrival, I presented myself at the local GTE cellular outlet (long since bought by...
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When retirement goes bad

August 30, 2015
This is how most people view retirement: a time to enjoy a more peaceful life, sort of like these ducks floating on a pond in Sonoma, Calif. And yet.... Ok, I'll just...
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Meditation through coloring & zentangle

August 29, 2015
In the old days it was called doodling, those repetitive patterns we'd make as we sat in boring meetings. Today, though, it's got a name: Zentangle.  And it has an...
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