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Are you late, early, or on time? I am basically an on-time person. It wasn’t always the case. I used to be late. The alarm didn’t go off. There was […]

My daughter graduates from high school this week. There have been a series of events leading up to graduation including the Senior prom, a Senior trip, a Senior sunrise, a […]

Saturday evening my husband went into the downstairs bathroom and found it flooded with water, coffee grounds, noodles, and other items we won’t mention. Apparently we had a blocked sewer […]

Our stomach clenches. We feel tight. We know it will be okay, it’s the movies, but we get sucked in. Every. Single. Time. Perhaps it is an end of the […]

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As a child I was taught that the opposite of love is hate. When looking up the word love in a thesaurus, my childhood teachings are confirmed. The most common […]

When my grandmother was a little girl her dad was paid at the end of each day. He came home with a pocket full of coins. Those coins were sorted […]

The house is warm. I have all the windows open and the birds are singing. Somewhere off in the distance I hear children laughing and playing. I hear a lawnmower. […]

What Is Home?

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Home is where the heart is. At least that’s what “they” say. You know who “they” are, the ubiquitous “they”. I rarely trust what “they” say, “they” have lead me […]

Karen Joy Fowler said: “All parents want an impossible life for their children – happy beginning, happy middle, happy ending. No plot of any kind. What uninteresting people would result […]

People ask me what it was like to be a girl and grow up with a Persian father. My dad was an immigrant from Iran, nearly 60 years ago, back […]

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This is a snow flower. Its scientific name is Sarcodes sanguinea. It does not use photosynthesis since it is actually a parasite, receiving nutrients from fungi that attach to tree […]

After careful review of my resume, they told me I have too many skills. Yup, you read this right, I am OVER QUALIFIED for virtually everything. It doesn’t help that […]

Song lyrics can be pure poetry, or they can be just plain stupid. I actually prefer songs in a foreign language, preferably one that I don’t understand at all. I […]

Take some time to do something creative. Write a poem, take a photograph, finger paint. You say you are not creative? I disagree. You are. Creativity comes in many forms. […]

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The Facebook posts on my wall fall into certain categories. “Share if you agree” and “Can we get a million likes for . . . “ are my least favorite. […]

My husband would rather walk than drive. Not that he doesn’t enjoy a long road trip, he does, but why drive to the coffee house when you can walk? Why […]

Yesterday I went to two different business mixers. They were each unique and unlike any of the mixers I have attended in the past. Most business mixers consists of little […]

There is a feeling, in the pit of your stomach, when things go wrong. It is the feeling we got, thousands of years ago, to let us know that a […]

The Great Society. Lyndon B. Johnson’s vision for the end to poverty and racial injustice. His vision included the creation of an educated society. It was a fifty year plan, […]

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We had a mild Winter. Mild is an understatement, it was virtually non-existent. A true, big-time drought. We skipped Spring, too, and went straight into Summer. It is warm, the […]

1) Do not yell at each other in the kitchen, in English or in Spanish. We hear you and we understand. 2) Get my order right. I did not order […]

Why does fashion go in cycles? My daughter has been hunting for a prom dress and every store has the same stuff. We have been to Macy’s, Dillard’s, and Nordstrom’s […]

Conversations with friends are best at lunch. The flavors and thoughts flow gently and freely when my pals and I eat together. We solve the problems of the world and […]

We all have moments of awkwardness in social situations. When I was young, I was worried if what I was wearing would be appropriate. I agonized over it. To add […]

Just a small note for all Star Wars fans. Hope you are having a great day. Yes, I was there on opening day for the original movie, the line was long, […]

Following our passion is how we live a full life. Passions don’t change, but they are defined differently as we change and grow. When I was a young girl, I […]

It is sad that of the 132 comments on my blog, 129 were spam bots. Robot programs, entering into a blog to “comment” when in actuality, they want to give […]

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Spring at Tahoe is snow, sun, rain, snain (that’s a mixture of snow and rain), wind, calm, breeze, and other weather patterns we don’t think of until they happen. This […]

It takes about 30 days to get into a habit. If you exercise every day for 30 days, you will develop the habit of exercising every day. It will no […]

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When you want to write, just write. Do not think about what you are writing, do not edit it as you go along, just write out a stream of consciousness […]