The boring lives of suburban wives

September 9, 2026
adult-content
If there were a category for "most boring reality show, The Double Lives of Suburban Wives would win, hands down. I don't watch ALL reality programming featuring women. But I have been a fan of the various Bravo "housewives" franchises, which enticed me to watch a few episodes of this show (on...
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8 Comments · Opinion

If you change nothing

July 14, 2013
OMG. I can't even tell you how much I love this, and how frustrating it us when people believe that there is any chance at all for anything good to come to them without...
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1 Comments · Blog

Kitchen tip: easy clean for juicer + recipe

July 13, 2013
The abundant fruits and vegetables of this summer season make it tempting to juice, but the cost of good juicers is prohibitive. Still, the health benefits of juicing...
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4 Comments · Recipes

Spring wine tasting in Sonoma

July 12, 2013
Summer has inched its way into our lives and very soon, grapes will again be hanging heavy on the vines in beautiful Sonoma. I blogged about my first visit to wine...
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7 Comments · Travel

How to teach a dog agility

July 11, 2013
  Smart dogs need something to do. Yes, they do. If, like us,  you have a very smart dog, you know that regular activities just don't keep his attention. And a...
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Leave a Comment · Dogs

The graveyard that’s Page 2 of Google

July 10, 2013
This is scarily true.  Who even looks at page two of Google search results? Hardly anyone.   We're lazy, basically, and digging takes too much effort. Today, digging...
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2 Comments · Blog

Spirits talk to us

July 9, 2013
This is what our roses looked like in the two spring-summers we've lived here. In May, a medium was at my house. She told me that when she came out to our family room...
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9 Comments · Soul School

How we spend the {still limited} hours of our long life is ...

July 8, 2013
Damaged, creative, crazy soul-- I love Sylvia Plath and can't get enough of books by and about her. Her journals? OMG, the words in her journals are lively, active,...
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10 Comments · Blog

Picture post cards were tweets & emails of the day

July 7, 2013
Here's something I didn't know. Back in Edwardian and Victorian times, mail was delivered several times a day in big cities--sometimes as many as six. Now, the postal...
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7 Comments · Blog

“I’m sorry.”

July 6, 2013
Two words, maybe three, and they hold the power of the world. No qualifications. No "but." No equivocation. Just I'm sorry. One of the saddest things in the world...
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12 Comments · Blog

Walking the dogs in triple-digit heat

July 5, 2013
Thanks, climate-change, for the triple digit heat wave we've been experiencing this week. You know, the one that didn't want to go away?  Yeah. That one.  The one that...
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7 Comments · Dogs

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