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The idea came from my daughter who’s in the Marines. She’s stationed in Japan and when I said I would come visit her this summer, she said “of course we’ll want to climb Mount Fuji.” I am an avid hiker but the idea of climbing up the side of this particular Japanese volcano hadn’t […]
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It’s only been a couple of years now since I passed beyond the idea that growing a profitable garden was simple. I was that person who, when it starts to get warm in the spring, would go out and dig up the garden bed with a shovel and then put some seeds in there and
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Raise your expectations. There’s much to see in Twentynine Palms. You might have been told that Twentynine Palms is in the middle of nowhere, not far from Death Valley. This is not completely true. Here are restaurants, hotels, banks, a library, Starbucks …the town has all the comforts of home, really. The desert architecture
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“The way you spend your morning has an outsized effect.” Benjamin Spall While my evening routine really was just created this spring, my morning routine began more than 25 years ago. It began because I could not “do” my life unless I got my head clear before everyone else got up. As a young
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Having a good evening routine helps you get to sleep, stay asleep, and wake up ready for the new day. But I used to view evening as a kind of “free for all time” when I would do whatever I thought would be fun. I’d been working all day, right, so I deserved it …
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Having tackled A Springtime Reflection on Going Forward, it’s time for really serious questions. Such as the best color of shoes to wear with the little black dress. This is a problem with many correct answers. The canonical answer is going to be black shoes, specifically black heels. First image is form instyle.com. The reason
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Finally, spring is here. You open the windows and smell the magical smell.. But what to do if springtime you brings ennui … even self doubt? Perhaps my doubt comes from the late, even unreliable, spring of Northern Colorado. Even when it does show up, you can’t be totally sure it will stay. There can
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Dinner. It’s More Important than Either You or I Thought This is my roundup post about dinner. I’ve been thinking about dinner a lot these days, and not just because I’m hungry. Dinner is more important than I thought. And it’s hard to get a “real” (three course, meat, starch, and vegetable) dinner together every
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As I read over the posts that I wrote on the California trip, I made a list of the things I learned on each day and linked the posts below. Today, as I re-write and re-edit, I come again upon thoughts of Amelia Earhart. Her name came up more than once. Like her I was
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I spent most of the day driving, returning from Littlefield, Arizona to Fort Collins. I actually left before 6 a.m., and rolled up to my house at 5:45 p.m. But it wasn’t all bad, because as I drove I was thinking about the California pilgrimage, putting my life in order, so to speak. The 10
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