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So Close Yet So Far
Kartchner Caverns. Worth a visit along with Colossal Caves. Caveat: lots of links and hyperbole. All this talk of moving has inspired me...
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Courage Revealed
A too familiar site. Guided tours are helpful to visitors to get the lay of the land, learn some history and identify sites to pursue...
Apr 104 min read
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Rattles
Yesterday I walked the house, the memories reverberating. There was a slight shifting of the dominoes this week. After several weeks of...
Apr 61 min read
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Opting Out
This is an accurate depiction of how I feel, not to be confused when how I look. I am playing retirement, much like I played house as a...
Apr 32 min read
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Rebooting My Mind
“It is only in modern times that the dream, this fleeting and insignificant looking product of the psyche, has met with such profound...
Mar 193 min read
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P. S. Health Update
Better living through chemistry. Okay, several friends contacted me concerned about my health, sparked by one sentence in the previous...
Mar 122 min read
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Imprinting Final Memories
Everyone needs a room of their own. Blue Boy is home for spring break, preparing for the end of his second year of college. Every time I...
Mar 113 min read
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The Saddest Song
Perhaps we need to learn from Europeans who treat their cemeteries more like parks than creepy areas of loss. My father died in June...
Feb 223 min read
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Beating the Death Sentence
[Jesus] suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the...
Feb 53 min read
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Safe, For Now
I recall a time we took a short kayak tour down the Verde River, Water to Wine it was called since it ended at a winery. When asked what...
Jan 203 min read
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The Dominos are Shifting
Waiting to take my chances. I just recounted and renumbered the dominos. I am up to fourteen. They bounce as if someone had punched the...
Jan 143 min read
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Evolving Backwards
Joining my ancestors. It is frightening, losing one’s balance. The tottering itself is alarming enough as is the resulting injury. Worse...
Jan 64 min read
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Riding the River
Ride the river, enjoy the quiet stream, prepare for the rapids. Mowgli stands outside my shed at eye level, I standing in the doorway....
Dec 26, 20243 min read
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Mowgli Who?
Mowgli did this?! “I wish all my students were like Mowgli,” said the instructor. My daughter envisioned her son’s bedroom floor covered...
Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Domino 14: O Canada
The tile has been in and out of the box, on and off the table for several years, occasionally fingered thoughtfully before laid aside....
Dec 3, 20242 min read
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A Table, A Cloud
The black cloud that haunted many of us these past eight years swirled into a storm threatening the legs of the table, rattling the...
Nov 29, 20242 min read
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Mislaid Domino
It has been a tough year. Today, my eyes are on the blessings. Under the pile of dominos determining our fate, the corner of a simple...
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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Where Are You Going?
Where will we land? Like a roller coaster inching its way up a steep incline, like seasons refusing to turn or kittens scampering to...
Nov 27, 20245 min read
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Ideas? No Problem. Destination? No Idea
I am certainly not a professional photographer. “Do you have many ideas for writing?” asked my husband. I scoffed. Do I have ideas? Not...
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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Thank You, Grandma
Sometimes the most humble offering is the most precious The silence is comfortable and dark—the silence of the boys entrenched in their...
Jul 18, 20242 min read
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