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Not in Kansas anymore

Moons back, when I was in my late 20s, my brother and sister were both teaching in Namibia, and my mother--in an expression of largesse and adventure--offered to cover the expenses for the four of us to take a trip together during an extended school break. So, off we went. We were stuffed into a VW Golf…

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No wrong turns

I had one of those things happen today. I was running some errands in Takoma Park and felt a need to get home, though I didn't have anything I had to do at any particular time. Ninety-nine, maybe 98, percent of the time I head home off Rt 32 a particular and specific way. Today -- I…

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Mind, blown

Back when I was in high school, my family took a trip to visit my grandparents in San Diego. We went during the extended Christmas vacation time (that's what it was called back then), and I remember it being rather bizarre seeing Christmas lights on large cacti and palm trees. We didn't visit often, nor…

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Fallen fruit

Decades back in a chapter of my life lived long ago, our family was visiting my father's parents in the San Diego area. Escondido to be specific, though I'm not sure that's a particularly relevant detail here. We didn't visit them often as 1) California was far away in a time before the internet, websites…

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Eat!

Hah! Arrived home from this-ing and that-ing just in time to catch the tail end of my community's potluck gathering  at the gazebo. Everyone had eaten their full, and I was encouraged to eat as much as I wanted. So I did. Cream cheese-stuffed mini peppers, avocado toast, blintzes, super-chocolatey little cupcakes, a pie made from a…

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That’s Keny!

I swear: I was just doing a wee bit of grocery shopping. But then all this other stuff happened. I was at Whole Foods Friday afternoon, where--of late--I've been buying organic pork sausage on the regular. (Love their loose breakfast sausage.) The strawberries actually had some strawberry-smell to them, so I got a few packs of them,…

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Gonna miss ’em

In general, I'd rather ignore a TV show until it's played out, all seasons are done, rumors of a sequel have been squashed, and I can now binge-watch with wild abandon. That's just how I roll. But when I bought something* recently and got three free months of Apple TV with my purchase, I asked my…

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