2023-05-19 whats so special about special
In one day, Mike and I had accrued over 7000 steps traipsing through two international airports, at last settling into our seats for the...
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- Jan 22
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2022-03-15 what is that aroma
What’s that aroma? March 15, 2022 It was our first winter in Arizona, 1995. I basked in the balmy weather unlike the harsh Midwest cold...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2022-01-10 Einsteinian Year
Einsteinian Years January 10, 2022 In the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein determined that time is relative—in other words, the...
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- Jan 22
- 1 min
2021-06-10 into the unknown
Did Einstein ever measure time against flowing water? The wooded forest near our house was our favorite playground. We were warned to...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2021-11-16 I disagree life is a gift not a trial
I Disagree: Life is A Gift, Not a Trial November 16, 2021 My initial impulse was to slap the speaker, but restraining myself, I nodded...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2021-10-20 where do you go to pray
Where do you go to pray? October 20, 2021 Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2022-05-16 you are the best of friends.
You Are the Best of Friends! May 16, 2022 Yes, I Am Still Here Travel, anniversary, surgery, illness, more travel. I feel as if I have...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2023-06-23 ADA in Europe
ADA in Europe The abbey of the Mont Saint Michel dominates a small piece of land in the region of Normandy, France, sitting high on the...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2023-05-04 Espana
April 21 – May 2, 2023, Days 11 – 21 Spain "Where have you been?" you ask. This will bring you up to date. Ignore the sketchy prose. And...
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- Jan 22
- 1 min
Surprised by Touch
June 14, 2023 The touch startled me. Mike and I were enjoying a tour of Spain and Portugal, delighted by the friendliness of the people...
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- Jan 22
- 1 min
2023-06-11 Lessons from the Iberian peninsula
More Lessons from the Iberian Peninsula 1492 was a very bad year for Spain, plummeting them into hundreds of years of decline. (It was...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
Anyone for a dry sandwich?
Anyone for a dry sandwich? May 25, 2022 Over the past 30 years, splitting time between Arizona and Chicago, I am constantly reminded of...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
Recurring dream
November 8, 2021 A hectic two-week jaunt to the Midwest left me exhausted and anxious. A frustrating feature of the aging body is its...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
Woke
July 6, 2021 I love Mexico On a street in Mexico, I leaned against the tailgate of my car outside the grocery market, waiting for ED to...
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- Jan 22
- 1 min
The Guest House
. . .loneliness didn’t exist as a word or concept in our culture until the 19th century. It is not a coincidence . . .— This One Wild and...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
Words, Words, Words!
Words, Words, Words! "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."—Thomas Jefferson Writers who...
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- Jan 22
- 2 min
2021-10-05 It rained this week
October 5, 2021 We moved to Arizona for sunshine and dry heat, driven away by the depressing gray clouds of Chicago which hovered low...
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- Jan 22
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2021-07-09 Reprise its good to be home
July 9, 2021 Leaving again? Just home from Chicago two days, we left for a short vacation in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, on the Sea of...
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- Jan 22
- 1 min
2023-05-11 Im people out
I’m Peopled Out A wise friend, reviewing his hike on a short portion of the Appalachian Trail, declared that he had underestimated the...
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- Jan 22
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2023-05-25 Standing in the Window
Standing in the Window The disturbing racket of an argument on the street reached our third-floor hotel window late one night in Lisbon,...
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