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War and Peace
In this holiday season, I feel like a BB in a Mason jar—those glass jars my Gran used for canning peaches—with my thoughts and emotions ping-ponging off obviously skewed news stories with such...
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Take This House and Shove It!
Take This House and Shove It! I don’t live here anymore. “Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.” Songwriter Leonard Cohen had me pegged with that...
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Take This House and Shove it!
Chapter 2 “Dear God, please bring the real estate market back. I promise not to piss away all my money this time,” says a sign in a real estate office. Pahrump, Nevada wasn’t even on my radar when I...
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You Just Can’t Not Love Charlie
When I drove into Charlie Poalillo’s California vineyard in West Templeton, the glaring summer sun bounced hot waves off the dry ground turning acres of vines to an iridescent green. Absorbing the...
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The Horse Whisperer at Windfall Farms
Serenity ruled as I entered the dominion of Carlos Cabello. The afternoon sun bounced off the gleaming coats of magnificent horses grazing in paddocks while choirs of enthusiastic birds celebrated...
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The Magical Charlotte Meade
Upon closing the big metal gate leading into the oak studded domain of Charlotte Meade, founder of Meade Canine Rescue Foundation, there was an immediate hue and cry from the four-legged population...
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Meditation in a California beach town
On a good surf day in O.B. (photo by Jon Sullivan) My first experience in Ocean Beach, California, a suburb of the City of San Diego, felt like I’d been thrust through a time warp into the 1970s. The...
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Immigrants Catching the American Dream
The American Declaration of Independence is a beacon of hope to millions across the globe who want a better life: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are...
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Escape From Iraq
The term, Genocide has been defined as: the systematic extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group. Iraq has been the backdrop for genocide of one kind or...
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Has Your Mind Been Hijacked?
Have you noticed that certain opinions become commonplace almost overnight? While interviewing different people, I’ve listened to one person citing a thing as bad and then, a stranger to the first...
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For Justin and Christine
Love knows no time, No space, no dimension. It is a universe unto itself Without borders or clocks or images, Where the angels of our better selves Make us welcome. Love gives no choice, no warning;...
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Lust, Greed and Kindness
Las Vegas, the city where scams are born and matured into cash cows, is nonetheless a wonder-filled “Never Never Land” for adults the world over. World class entertainment and restaurants support an...
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L.A. Law
*The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.* Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Charles...
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