You know how some days you just wake up feeling like how my cat looks? This weekend has been like that for me. I sprained my ankle from a particularly rigorous workout on Friday so I’ve been hobbling around on one good foot for the last 48 hours. But the good news is that I finally got my lazy butt …
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To My Father On His 70th Birthday
Weather lore has it that back in the early days of the Rose Parade, officials made a pact with the churches that if January 1st ever fell on a Sunday, they would move the parade to the 2nd so that no one would skip out on church service…in exchange for a sunny parade day. The “contract” must have been somewhat …
Joy, Peace, And A Sunny Disposition
You’ve probably heard that we had almost 7 full days of rain here in California, and for southern Cal, that’s practically as bad as 40 days and 40 nights. But in spite of the horrific mudslides in some of our hills, a full rainbow showed up at the end of the rains… and the next day we all got into …
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The Real American Thanksgiving Tradition
Hi everyone! I’ve not fallen into a food or shopping coma…yet. I promise to circle back to continue the Lanvin story in a few days, but for the time being, I’ve been hosting my Belgian family here so we’ve been on the go nonstop. Who knew LA was so big! And who knew there was a thing called the Central …
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Year 3
As they say, 1 is a lonely number. It’s an odd number, signifying solitude for some and a finish at the top for others. The number almost everyone chases. During the early days of this blog, my solitary goal was to survive the first year without a technical malfunction where I might lose all of my content. I couldn’t wait …