To my 2 beautiful angels on July 10th. Then, today and every day . . . You touched my life with your magic and you taught me to believe. Love, and thinking of you always.

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I’d become a hermit. I work from home, and that made it easy. I spent my days in pajamas and my nights in front of the TV. I didn’t shave anything anywhere in weeks, my unwashed hair was streaked with grey. I had my meals delivered and stole from my landlord’s garden. I began to [...]

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Today I honor all the wonderful women in my life. The one I was born to and the ones I was born with, who get me for who I am and encourage with love and honesty though I don’t always make sense. The one who recognizes me most of the time, but is most intimately [...]

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Winter is finally over. The cold and dreary days fade away as though a dream. Flowers, trees and fields are alive with the colors and scents and sounds of inevitable spring. My parent’s backyard in Virginia is a little spot of heaven where you can sit on the porch, have a Margarita and watch the [...]

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Today I’m posting a poem written by SuziCate at The Water Witch’s Daughter. She is a fantastic writer and a dear friend and she’s got a pretty good view of her world and her place in it. At one time or another we all can benefit from remembering that so much of our life, and [...]

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SuzeCate at The Water Witch’s Daughter is giving away Sunshine Awards, so I went right over there and took mine. I figure I deserve it, if for nothing else, because I’m not going to sit here and complain in a long drawn and out boring post how pissed off I am at my stomach right [...]

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some place some time some one some thing always searching always trying always reaching always striving. did nothing today except be did not fade maybe even actually was.

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Today I am just not feelin’ the love. Nothing major in the overall scheme of life. Of that I am aware. Just a lot of little things that add up to a huge desire to bag it and go back to bed. I shouldn’t be surprised that I found these on my morning walk. Surely [...]

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Tonight’s full moon is the Gathering Moon. Time to celebrate all we have accomplished. Set intentions for the coming spring. And recognize our own personal achievements and advancements. This is good for me. Because I find too often that my own inner guide still bends to the other, my own worst critic. Time for that [...]

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This is one of my favorite pictures of Daisy. Back in Virginia Beach, Daisy had a habit of sitting on the her end table and looking out the window.  She’d watch the birds, the squirrels and the neighbors come and go, but mostly she’d sit at her perch and wait for me. Daisy knows that [...]

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I’ve been in LA exactly one month today, and I’m leaving. Yep, that’s right. Packing it up, loading the dogs back into the car, and watching the Santa Monica pier fade from view in my rear view mirror. I’m going up to Ojai. If someone had told me a couple of months ago that I’d [...]

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I walked out my front door at least 20 times today and went absolutely nowhere. Daisy’s separation anxiety has basically trapped me at home while I figure out which method and combination of training works best for her. It isn’t just about correcting the problem that she barks like a broken record when I leave [...]

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I heard the song Fireflies yesterday while driving up the PCH. My friend Scott back in Virginia sent me the YouTube video several months ago, but this was the first time I’d heard it played on the radio. It’s just one of the darned cutest songs to come along, and there’s nothing like good music [...]

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MarkCarlos is my latest thrift store find. At $50, he was such a bargain that I couldn’t pass him up. Short on space in a studio apartment, but with plenty of overhead real estate, I knew MarkCarlos would fit well in a 13 x 13 living area. The shelves and drawers ~ and even a [...]

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The dogs and I arrived in LA in one piece (or three separate but intact pieces) on the evening of January 5th. After 10 days on the road and more potty stops than I can count ~ not all of them for the dogs ~ our entrance into the city could have easily come straight [...]

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