How to fall in love with fog

August 16, 2015
The thing about San Francisco is that it has countless faces ... and many moods. I've been there innumerable times when the sky was inescapably blue and the sunshine...
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Moving west: the adaptability of cats

August 14, 2015
Chapter 2 Cats are really more adaptable than you think. You can catch up with the preface and Ch. 1 on my home page ... scroll down to the Trippin' category. We...
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19 Comments · Blog, Dogs, Travel

Packing: how hard could it be?

August 11, 2015
Are you moving? Have you moved? You'll relate to this mini-series on a move I did some years ago during which pretty much everyone was tortured. In one way or...
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Moving on by moving

August 6, 2015
Huxley's quote pretty much sums me up. The problem is that danger, freedom and sin aren't very practical.  You can't live like that and also, say, save for retirement....
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23 Comments · Blog, Travel

Talking about Happy Places

June 14, 2015
Happy Places. With capital H and P. I laugh and say that Macy's shoe department is my Happy Place.  But is it? It's certainly my RETAIL Happy Place. In fact, the...
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14 Comments · Blog, Travel

A day of wine and roses

June 13, 2015
We live about two hours from our favorite wine country, Sonoma, but dotted in the hills above San Jose and conveniently, much closer, are some beautiful wineries and...
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20 Comments · Blog, Travel

One life, don’t blow it!

May 9, 2015
We had our first Kona Brewing Company beer at a party we attended the other night.  I wasn't surprised to see the brand, since our friends have a place in Hawaii,...
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21 Comments · Blog, Travel

Birds love Lovers Point

March 31, 2015
Oh, the life of a bird on the Monterey peninsula. This gull is perusing his domain at Lover's Point in Pacific Grove, Calif., not too far from where I used to live. ...
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Irish falconry and the Blarney stone

March 17, 2015
I fell in love with Ireland, completely and utterly.  In my dreams I got a teaching job there at Trinity College and lived near downtown...all those pubs.  I heart...
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Another grand adventure of youth

March 8, 2015
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It's funny, isn't it, how we look back on our younger days and remember how everything was fresh and new and a grand adventure? Or so it seemed back then. The grand...
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