Tag: love my dad
Posted on November 29, 2017
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“Care to join me for a hike?” Dennis Gobets 2009. Since Thanksgiving is not anchored to any particular date the anniversary of my dad’s death seems to fall on two days some years. This year is one of them. Black Friday is always the hardest… Continue Reading “Black Friday Two for One Special”
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Posted on March 9, 2016
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Like so many of the things we see everyday I have rediscovered two of the items in my living room. They have been hanging on my walls for almost half my life- and there are long periods of time when I cease to… Continue Reading “Perfect little Imperfections and Unintentionally Complete Projects”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: art, art, beauty, California, creation, dad, DIY, family, fun, kindness, life, love, love my dad, metal art, patience, patients, peace, redwoods, short people, welding, beauty, California, calm, family, life, love my dad, love my mom, Maine, short people
Posted on August 6, 2015
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I wrote this almost 10 years ago now. Sitting on my mountain top back home, looking over Big Basin to the Pacific. Alone. Watching hummingbirds fight like jets, smelling manzanita, reveling in the blooming Indian Paint Brush. It was a good day.
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Posted on January 18, 2015
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I was broken, empty and unable to do anything about it. My dad was dead and I was 3000 miles away. I couldn’t fly home immediately, because bereavement fairs no longer exist and we could not afford a ticket that costs twice what it would… Continue Reading “It’s A SAK!”
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Posted on November 28, 2014
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One year ago, I drove across town with the boys in blissful ignorance of what the day would bring. We were on a mission to find post-Thanksgiving donuts to round out our holiday gluttony. As we passed the lake; I saw that it was on… Continue Reading “Time is never on sale. Get It While You Can!”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: anniversary, black friday, blissful ignorance, Dad, death, grief, loss, love, love my dad, love my kids, miss my dad
Posted on September 18, 2014
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When I was young, my dad used to tuck me in at night and tell me a “Chickie Story.” He would make these stories up on the spot with me as “Chickie.” Most of the time these stories consisted of him rehashing what I had… Continue Reading “A Chickie story”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: backyard chickens, bedtime stories, blended families, Brutus, chicken coop, chicken stories, chickens, Chickie, Chickie Story Chickie, childhood, children's stories, family, fun, kids first, love, love my dad, marriage, parenting
Posted on September 8, 2014
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“High Ho, High Ho, it’s off to work I go.” Well, to be honest as a restaurant “lifer” I have been sneaking shifts bar tending down South at a cool historic inn. It has been amazing to focus on the homestead and the boys… Continue Reading “Following Life’s Not So Subtle (Road) Signs”
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Posted on March 23, 2014
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Like so many of the things we see everyday I have rediscovered two of the items in my living room. They have been hanging on my walls for almost half my life- and there are long periods of time when I cease to… Continue Reading “Perfect little Imperfections and Unintentionally Complete Projects”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: art, beauty, California, creation, Dad, DIY, family, fun, kindness, life, love, love my dad, metal art, patience, patients, peace, redwoods, short people, welding
Posted on March 19, 2014
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This time last year I was doubtful that this day would come. All THREE dogs sitting quietly on the couch with the rest of the family. Our two oldest are old pros at the ‘relax and cuddle’ game but our newest edition has been… Continue Reading “How Do You Tell If It’s The Calm Before OR After The Storm?”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: beauty, calm, Do's and don'ts, Dogs, family, fun, kids first, love, love my dad, peace, puppies, puppy, short people, Siberian huskies
Posted on March 6, 2014
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The snow falling lightly on my window reveled itself to me one day. All the little flakes waited patiently to melt. Momentarily displaying their breathtaking detail, individual beauty and uniqueness. I was there to see it. But had there been no audience-the show would… Continue Reading “Death and snowflakes”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: beauty, death, family, kids first, kindness, life, loss, love, love my dad, love my mom, love my sister, missing, passing, peace, short people, soulmates, spring, stepkids, stepmom, winter
Posted on February 21, 2014
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Just a story to bring attention to: More than a decade ago, I was walking to my car in downtown Santa Cruz. Coming toward me from across the parking garage was a man, he was crying. His hair was matted to his head and… Continue Reading “How a random acts of kindness resulted in a senseless act of beauty.”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: Ca, California, calm, caring, charity, fun, helping, homlessness, kindness, love, love my dad, no judgement, sacrifice, short people
Posted on February 6, 2014
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I have often heard people talking about activities and situations that they “could never do with a spouse without killing them.” My husband and I have done so many of the things others recommend not to I have lost count. For example, we have:… Continue Reading “It’s all fun and games till someone calls “NIYDEK!””
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Category: Current conditionsTags: calm, Dane Cook, DIY, Do's and don'ts, family, fun, happiness, kids first, life, love, love my dad, marriage, peace, playground, short people, soul mates, tag
Posted on January 31, 2014
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Almost four years ago now, my partner (now husband) and I found ourselves in the unenviable position of moving to the East Coast. For us, the timing of the move was not something we had expected. In fact it was years sooner than… Continue Reading “Eastward Ho! Part I”
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Category: Current conditions, Our storyTags: Ca, California, family, fun, kids first, love my dad, love my mom, love my sister, moving, short people, soulmates, stepkids
Posted on January 30, 2014
by ETC
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You shouldn’t hate anything but…I hate ‘black friday.’ I despise the consumerism and mania that it encourages. I find it abhorred that the nation can deftly vacillate from heartfelt appreciation for the things we have- to unabashed and rapid accumulation of new things. Things… Continue Reading “Buck Flack Friday!”
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Category: Current conditionsTags: beauty, black friday, death, distance, family, homlessness, kindness, love my dad, my dad is dead, sacrifice, sad, shopping, short people, Team Squeam
Posted on January 17, 2014
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The Swell Again and again I tread the same water passing it over my body and going nowhere, suspended between what is and what is to be. Then change comes as a wave out of the abyss consuming everything. Shifting your entire bodily universe… Continue Reading “The swell (how life works from the perspective of a surfer’s daughter)”
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Posted on January 14, 2014
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Am I beautiful? How can I tell? I could look for the answer in the mirror to see what I need to cover up. I could give myself a number either off a scale or tag. I could look at the the beautiful people… Continue Reading “How can I tell?”
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Posted on January 11, 2014
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Life is wonderful. Whether you take the time to realize it or not. To truly look around and see creation, life, living as it is, is a symphony to behold. The harmony of sky and sea, mountain and sun can not be accurately inscribed… Continue Reading “Life at the top of the mountain”
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Category: Current conditions, WritingTags: amazing sister, beauty, Ca, California, love, love my dad, love my mom, love my sister, short people, Team Squeam