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HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUTICAL OR NICE

Sure enough—he was the real deal. And who did he think he was fooling with those shades? Certainly, not me. Incognito on a wind still summer’s afternoon—that’s what he was—a living, breathing, incognito San Francisco treat. But a cable car … Continue reading

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P-I-P * or A Poet’s Process

*POETRY-IN-PROGRESS Cursor stabs on blank white screen While “What will I write today?” loudly screams (of course-screams are LOUD, unless, they’re silent)                                       … Continue reading

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UP

Where’s My Backpack is a travel-based blog that I have recently started following. Love it! And every week, Ailsa suggests a theme and invites her readers to share their own photo adventure. No sooner had I read this week’s suggestion when … Continue reading

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WHERE THE LOST SOCKS ARE

This adventure has been rated OSFA, One-size-fits-all, by the International Knee-Sport-and-Leisure-Sock Association of Planetearth. Otherwise known as IKSLAP. Have you seen this sock today? After half a century of sitting on their hands, many members of CADS, the Center for … Continue reading

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Illumination

The sun shows her face for only a moment, illuminating the way home, pointing out that we always have a choice…

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AUF WIEDERSEHEN – Until We Meet Again

RUTHLESS. What a curious word. And how did it ever come to mean ‘cruel, heartless, pitiless.’ Could it have been coined in a gal leaves guy country-western ballad—Cold and callous, she ground his heart like the butt of her Camel … Continue reading

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GOOD DAY MOON

On top of Round Hill, in a land called Marin, December’s sun coaxed a new day to begin. As she climbed, bit by bit, up into the sky, Sun noticed the Moon, waiting patiently nigh. “Is something wrong, brother?” she … Continue reading

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To Camp, Or Not To Camp? That is the question…

What self-respecting adventurer (adventuress just sounds wrong) can call themselves as such if they have never been camping? Being an adventure seeker as a child, I had always wanted to be a boy scout for exactly that reason. They got … Continue reading

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STONES FROM THE RECTUM—A Tail of Adventure

“No. We already have a dog. One is enough,” I said. Once, twice, a quadrillion times. It wasn’t even the kids asking anymore. It was Ronald, my hubby dearest. I thought of suggesting he go get himself a fish if … Continue reading

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INNER SPACE—THE FINAL FRONTIER…

…These are the voyages of a being named Donna. Her life-long mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out her authentic self, embark on new adventures and to push herself beyond her limitations, to boldly go where no man … Continue reading

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