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Striving (or what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger)
We’ve had a pretty crazy couple of weeks full of travel, a combination of work and lots of running. But since work is, well, work let’s gloss over that part and get right to the fun stuff. Let the catching up begin! First up, there was Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap race on May 19
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Silent movie
Chuck and I and our friends Skip and Diane headed over to Catalina Island this past Saturday for the 25th annual Catalina Island Museum Silent Film Benefit. The museum is located in the Catalina Casino, as is a movie theater and a ballroom. The movie theater was the first to be constructed for either sound
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Mother’s Day
Mary Ellen Flick, Nov 13, 1914- Oct 23, 1967. My mother died ten days after my tenth birthday. She had a brain tumor that they tried to remove when I was six with limited success. It left her aphasic and changed. We learned to read together – me for the first time, her for the
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The end of the remodel or how we spent the last four months and $20,000
Well, it took a lot longer than anticipated (due to our failure to anticipate how long it takes to get kitchen cabinets, among other things), but our front house kitchen remodel is complete! And even better, the house has been rented. Okay, at a bit less than we had hoped, but still, rented! So
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Post impressions
We’ve been home for a few days now and already Europe and our time there is receding in my memory (kind of like the jet-lag). But casting my mind back, when last I left us, we were off to Delft. Delft turned out to be a really cool town! We took the local train and
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Those crazy Amsterdammers!
We arrived in Amsterdam yesterday, and are staying at (as everyone who hears we are staying here tells us) a five-star hotel. Chuck’s remark on seeing our room was, “I expected something bigger for a five-star hotel.” Actually, it’s a pretty good sized room and is (la-di-da!) on the executive floor. The only perk this
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