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In search of the holiday spirit
After last year’s awful holiday season (can you say cancer and chemo?) we decided that this year it would be all about creating good memories. So to get the ball rolling, we headed off to Glenwood Springs CO for Thanksgiving. it’s a wonderful place, a natural hot springs resort town in the Rockies. We left
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How we’ve spent our week
We had a great weekend biking around the Solvang area. Saturday was the Solvang Prelude where we rode 50 miles, then on Sunday we did a recreational 25-miler from Solvang to Babcock Winery (one of our favorites) and back (25 miles). In all the time we’ve been going up to the Santa Ynez area, this
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A working Halloween and a pause to give thanks
We spent Halloween weekend in Pasadena, at the California Library Association’s annual conference. All of our time was spent in an exhibit booth, so I have no real idea how the conference went, but our booth area seemed pretty popular. The booth’s theme was “Libraries, Learning and Zombies” so we had to dress up, of
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Another year older and deeper in, well, something…
So my 52nd birthday has come and gone. It was a movable feast of multiple celebrations over a few days and since we were on the road for several days before and after the big day, so I haven’t had much chance to update the blog (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it). After
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My knight in shining armor!
Today marked a really great day in our post-cancer world. Six months after finishing his last chemo treatment, Chuck ran the Healdsburg Half Marathon in 2:48, an awesome time by any measure, but really amazing compared to the last half he survived (you can’t really call it running) last May. Our friends Valeria and Maureen
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