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Can I just say that it’s been rather busy around here? I forgot that winter is the social season and I get overwhelmed. So, let’s see… Country was here for a week and then we drove her to Akumal for a day and to the airport in Cancun. We took all the [...]

There’s an old man who begs on a corner I pass many times a week.  He’s bent and stooped and has a cane and an old plastic chair that he sits in when the light is green.  When it is red, he walks along the stopped cars, slowly and off balance and asks for money.
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Learning a language is not a straight forward thing, at least for me. It goes in loops and whorls and there are good Spanish days and bad Spanish days and days when my brain seems to have forgotten even the most basic words that I’ve known for years. Sometimes, my brain just substitutes [...]

I’m ready for a new year.  This one started out pretty good but it’s ending on a whine.   Shall I list my whines?  or whinges as the Brits call it.   Well, I might not have that usage right, this English is a tough language.  They say whinging when we say whining, it rhymes with hinge… [...]

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I’ve gotten one comment asking this and several friends have tried to politely ask me if Mimi is ever coming back.  The answer to that is yes, soon I think.    She’s doing a lot of work up in California to straighten out some of our affairs.  We now know that we will never be able [...]

I was going to write this cheery post with pictures from the state fair but I’m sure that you would much rather read about my morning from hell and how there was blood, and pee, and poop, and yes, perhaps even some tears. Oh and sweat, definitely sweat… and bloodcurdling screams too, but of [...]