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When I was riding my bike on a back country road the other day, I pulled over to take a swig from my water bottle and two confused-looking elderly women stopped next to me...
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the healing aspect of nature. I like it when I see on Facebook that one of my friends is taking a walk on the beach, camping in...
When we lived on an island off the coast of North Carolina a bunch of years ago, our house sat on a dead end road surrounded by dunes and sand paths leading to the village...
I’m enrolled in another round of Spanish-for-retired-people through the local community college and I’m enjoying it immensely — except that sometimes I feel stressed because it’s difficult and I’m not the smartest kid in...
The other day I had breakfast at one of my favorite places. It was early in the day and Rita’s made-from-scratch frosted sugar cookies were just coming out of the oven, getting ready to...
There was a teacher in my high school who was unpopular with a lot of the kids. He wasn’t a bad teacher as I recall — it seemed to me that he tried hard...
Both of my mother’s parents died when she was quite young, facilitating the need to send her and her brothers to live with separate relatives. My mother rarely saw her brothers after her parents’...
The windows in my house make a wonderful noise on windy days and I was able to enjoy that a lot during the unusually gusty weather we had this summer. It’s technically not a...
My husband likes burned bacon. It’s true. We don’t have bacon very often but when we do, he would love it if I would blacken it. I’m fine with cooking it really well done...
In my Spanish class we talked about the word “cara” and how it can mean the noun “face” and can also mean the adjective “expensive”. We were all plenty familiar in English with words...