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march madness at mount diablo
In Northern California it’s green for about ten minutes in the spring. That would be precisely now. Last weekend we took our first trip to Mt. Diablo in the East Bay. It was all kinds of spectacular,...
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in other words :: 13 march 2015
Changes are coming…starting with the rename of the weekly link roundup from This Week’s Mojo to Go to In Other Words, until I imagine something else. I hope you don’t mind, but naming (and renaming)...
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the cactus league :: chapter one, baseball
Steve and I just returned from a four day trip that felt like a real vacation. We flew to Phoenix for Spring Training in Scottsdale. It was a last minute trip, with a few unexpected surprises. Some...
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the cactus league :: chapter two, pretty and prickly
I don’t know what I expected of Phoenix. I knew I was going to the desert, but I didn’t expect it to be so cactusy. I was a little confused by the palm tree/cactus combinations at the resorts, but the...
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the cactus league :: chapter three, frank’s house
Still recapping our Spring Training adventure, with a side trip to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. Except our rookie mistake was to not actually plan the trip, therefore arriving as the last tour...
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the cactus league :: chapter four, sedona on the rocks
Twenty-four hours in Sedona sounded like a good idea. We thought of it as a scouting trip for next time. Drive in, see the sites, do a little shopping, drinks and dinner, enjoy a Sunday morning hike,...
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welcoming disappointment
Last week, I was sitting on a beautiful wooden rocking chair, in perfect 70 degree weather, perched on what seemed to be the edge of the world. The view before me was spectacular, the red rocks of...
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gathering good :: march 27, 2015
Chihuily at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Scottsdale, AZ Hey there, so I am still playing around with the name for the weekly links pack. For today, let’s go with Gathering Good. Next week it will...
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just a moment :: spring break edition
Alex was home for four days over spring break. This was the first time since last August when she left for Amsterdam (we’ve seen her since then, just not on home soil). We crammed two week’s worth of...
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for the love of holding hands :: jan and bill’s 60th anniversary
“Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you – but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the...
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