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Category Archives: Big Fun
You lucky dog.
As we mere mortals hunker down for winter and the onslaught of the holidays, Lily the Wonder Dog just does what she does Every. Single. Day. “Let’s go, Lily”, calls the CE. She jumps in the Jeep and off they … Continue reading
Posted in Animal/Vegetable/Mineral, Big Fun, Spoiled Pets
Tagged dogs, Life, pets, spoiled pets
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And then we wined about the heat…
I’ve more or less made a career of complaining about how cold it is in coastal southern California (if you don’t believe me, show up in a tank top and hang out in one of our epic fog banks) so … Continue reading
Posted in Big Fun, Life, Travel
Tagged Alchemist's Garden Paso Robles, Calcareous Vineyards, California, Daou Vineyards, La Cosecha Paso Robles, Life, Paso Robles, Travel, wine-tasting
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Family, Friends, Blessings.
I’ve entered a state of perpetual amazement. Amazed, first, in retrospect at how strangely easy it was to adjust to a year of life lived in shadows, adopting as my mantra the Marcus Aurelius quote “Very little is needed to … Continue reading
We went to the prom!
Well, more accurately, the prom came to us. All we had to do was step out the door! Youth pastor Scott Dupar had a vision and a mission: this past year has been really hard on kids, and he wanted … Continue reading
We rolled the dice: Las Vegas!
The latest COVID quandary: when is it safe to travel? After a year-plus of living like cave-dwellers, when is the right time to emerge, blinking and trepidatious, into what we used to call normal life? The answer is different depending … Continue reading
Posted in Big Fun, Travel
Tagged Cipriani Las Vegas, COVID, Las Vegas, Life, Milos Las Vegas, Travel, Wynn Las Vegas
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Hacked by a Russian!
Regret to inform you the reading recap has been temporarily interrupted by a Russian invasion: It’s been all cat-caphony here since he arrived. His arrival to us, from Seattle to Ontario, CA, to us was quite a caper, but nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Animal/Vegetable/Mineral, Big Fun, Life, Spoiled Pets
Tagged cats, exotic longhair, Life, Persian cat, Persian kitten, pets, Rain City Silvers
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Family Album: Sinfully Fun.
No one falls for Las Vegas like me. Not even close. I can prove it: one shattered radius, one fractured ulna. And oh, the icing on the cake? Remember how I kept saying my back hurt? Fracture at L-4. I … Continue reading
Posted in Big Fun, Life, Travel
Tagged Carbone Las Vegas, Espiatorio Milos Las Vegas, Family, Las Vegas, Life, Spago Las Vegas
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Heavenly.
I’m pretty sure that in the final moments of the Sixth Day, just before He rested, God smiled, gave a wink and dealt out the Hawaiian islands just to give us a little foretaste of heaven. And I’m just as … Continue reading
Friends in high places: Sun Valley
I don’t know if it was the altitude or the company or something in the water. Whatever it was, I’ll have more, please: our week in Sun Valley positively glowed. Maybe it was all the flowers. Everywhere we looked! Or … Continue reading
Posted in All Things Family, Big Fun, Travel
Tagged ketchum idaho, Life, sun valley idaho, sun valley lodge, sun valley on ice, Travel
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Grateful x 3
The best Thanksgivings are plural. We were blessed to enjoy three of them this year, albeit two in absentia. Thanksgiving One: we skedaddled so friends from the East Coast could gather at our place with their far-flung family AND new … Continue reading
Posted in All Things Family, Big Fun, Holidays, Travel
Tagged Family, Life, Santa Monica, Thanksgiving
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