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September 10, 2021 ~ Friday I sat down to write a totally different blog piece today. It’s gray and cool out – very autumnal. I look out my dining window and see my (badly needing pruning) maple – branches heavy … Continue reading →

September 4, 2021 ~ early Saturday morning (flanked by dogs/in bed) Warning: don’t read this while eating! It’s early (for me) on this Saturday morning. The sun has barely appeared in the eastern sky and the fan is drawing cool … Continue reading →

September 1st, 2021 ~ Wednesday (cool and sunny on this NW island) Merely two blog posts ago I said that in a blink of an eye it would be September. Guess what?! I returned home late (late!) Monday night from … Continue reading →

August 22, 2021 ~ Sunday night The house is quiet. I love it like this. There is nary a whisper or breeze outside … just the slight tick of a clock and the soft puff of breath from a slumbering … Continue reading →

August 11th, 2021 … Wednesday (Sunny and 79 degrees on this NW island) Resilience … the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. This word has been swirling around in this noggin of mine for a couple of weeks now. … Continue reading →

June 29, 2021 ~ Tuesday (the day after a record-breaking heat wave in the NW) October has arrived, once again. At least, tonight’s cooler temps remind me of some early autumnal evening. And, for once, I’m okay with that. For … Continue reading →

June 21, 2021 ~ Monday (the first day of Summer) If Summer could be encapsulated into one lovely 24 hour day … it could very well look like today … the first day of Summer … NW style. It was … Continue reading →

June 7, 2021 – Monday (now back in Denver but this was written on the plane enroute) I am restless. I’m on my way back to CO – flight #1 of the day – from Charlotte. A flight of a … Continue reading →

June 4, 2021 – Friday (somewhere in the South) Greetings … from North Carolina. I am at my new best friend’s place … Holiday Inn Express … in the tiny town of Apex, NC. Think country meets new build meets … Continue reading →

May 31, 2021 – Monday (for another 42 minutes … Memorial Day) I’m on my Southern “nosing around/hope to find a new hometown” trip. So, greetings from nearly Atlanta. I’m tucked into my clean (ahhhh) hotel room on the outskirts … Continue reading →