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All the Trimmings
I love Thanksgiving. Not only for all the obvious reasons. Though I have to admit, the combination of turkey and cranberry sauce is enough to send me into paroxysms of joy. The reason I feel...
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Home Sweet Home
They say that distance makes the heart grow fonder. I couldn’t agree more. Especially when the distance is six thousand miles by plane, approximately twenty hours of flight time from what I like to...
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Bedtime Stories
I‘m told that when I was about two years old, I was left with my step-grandfather while my parents were out for the evening, and that when they returned a few hours later, I was still awake while he...
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I’m going to be fifty
I’m going to be fifty. Not just yet. But some day, not in the too distant future, it’s going to happen and there’s nothing I can do about it. Although I have considered moving to another city, since...
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Gone, but not forgotten.
Please read editor note at bottom of story Most of us have one. We don’t even have to think too long before sharing its name, its location and what we like best about it. Some of us even have a...
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Another Way to be in School
In an unassuming building located on the corner of 5th Street and Russell Blvd, (526 B Street if you’d like to visit), can be found a group of pretty incredible people. Over the past five years I’ve...
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Will They Stay or Will They Go?
It’s that time of year again, when some of us breathe a bit easier and not just because we’ve graded our last essays, attended a couple graduations, or taken our first dip in the no longer cold water...
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The Colors of Us
Walking through the farmer’s market this past Saturday was both a colorful and reaffirming experience for me. I had strolled past the fragrant stalls many times over the years, but on this particular...
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Summer Escapes
We plan for it. We save up for it. Some of us pour over maps, marking the most effective routes to get to it. Others spend weeks comparing air fares and choosing the best flight times, booking hotels...
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Eye of the Beholder
We don’t always understand it. We don’t even like some of it. Yet there is no question that our fair city is filled with it. And not only in all the obvious places. I used to think that art could only...
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Home
Here’s a dirty little secret – I’m not really a Davisite. While I’ve lived in Davis off and on since age five, and long before it became an actual city, I don’t really qualify since I’m just not...
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‘Tis the Season
I really wasn’t asking for much. But it sure felt like I was. My quest began at the local Safeway, a friendly enough place where employees smile and chat, and even ask if I am having an excellent...
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Our Best Friends
There was no way I was going to write about this. That’s what I’ve been telling myself for the last two months. But the little voice inside my head tells me otherwise, like it always does when an idea...
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Too Green For Me
I may have to quit my job because of garbage. It all started when we returned from vacationing on the coast. Great weather, beautiful views, deer frolicking under windows, complete relaxation. The kind...
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Flustered by feathered “friends”
It’s 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. The kind of morning when you wake momentarily before realizing that you don’t have to stumble in the dark to shower, get dressed and head out to work at an ungodly...
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