“Ummm….I’m sorry….but you have smoothie on your shoe,” is not what you’d expect someone to say after you’ve just spent three hours with them in a professional capacity. Questions come to mind. Wait…what? Smoothie? How did she notice that? And why did she wait until i was LEAVING to tell me? These situations are so […]

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At some point everyone thinks about what words will be written on their tombstone. Or is that just me? i mean, when i die, what short sentence can capture the essence of my life? i have had a couple of suggestions from beloved friends who know me (and my three-ring life), but i thought i […]

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Not many of you are aware of a little-known fact about me:  i am a certified Rescue Scuba Diver. You can stop laughing any time now. Yes, i have taken all the trainings and done all the things to become certified as a Rescue SCUBA Diver. Why, you ask? It all started with my love […]

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i have always been into Stevie Nicks. Like…ALWAYS. i can’t remember a time when i didn’t love her. She’s one of those entertainers that sort of fits into many of life’s moments. When i was an awkward, pimply pre-teen and wanted to be a “singer on a big stage”, i would stand on my bed, hairbrush-microphone held […]

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Tonight i found myself in the back seat of a car on a traffic-jammed highway on a long trip home, with a belly full of Indian food, trying to tell this story to my compadres. And no matter how many different ways i tried to paint the picture of just exactly what befell me that […]

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Puxtawny Phil is an American legend. A true hero of a hedgehog. i can’t quite remember if i knew of him before i saw the movie, or after, but one thing is clear: the American tradition of consulting a rodent to predict the next few months of weather every year on Feb 2 keeps the […]

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