Category: Personal
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Vacation Beckons
I’m headed out of town for a few weeks, so the blog will be quiet for a bit. It’s my usual recharge-the-batteries visit with family still living back in Maine, something I always look forward to each year. In an incredible case of coincidental timing, my friends from California are actually there now and leave…
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Moon Joy
I often say that writing is my escape from the demands of my day job; writing my first novel, Blindsided, came about primarily because my family doctor hinted strongly that I needed something besides swimming and running to try and knock the edge off the accumulating stress that comes with working in IT. There’s no…
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Fun in the Sun
As experiences go, there are few that I’ve done that measure up the uniqueness that is the Tucson Festival of Books. I’ve been an avid fan since it started, and have spent many happy hours over the years listening to authors talk about their craft. I can’t tell you how many amazing discoveries I’ve made…
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What Jeff Galloway Meant To Me
I had other plans for my blog post this week — plans that were scrapped when the news crossed my desk that the Olympic runner Jeff Galloway had unexpectedly passed away. You probably have never heard of him, but for those of us who have participated in a runDisney event, he is legendary as their…
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Special Moments
December always feels like the busiest month of the year, almost as though I’ve avoided eleven months of work so I can try to squeeze them the four paltry weeks we have left before the calendar changes to the new year. It happens to me every cycle, and in most cases, it’s just a psychological…
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Wine & Dining
As I write this entry, I’m wrapping up some final items at work and preparing to jump on a plane so I can complete the back half of the coast-to-coast challenge I blogged about a few weeks ago. It’s a bit hard for me to accept that the Fall has zipped by as fast as it has;…
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Train Redux
I had another chance to take the train out to see my friends in California recently; unlike the last time I visited, this trip was very much spur of the moment and (by necessity) needed to be low budget, so I booked a standard Coach ticket for the roundtrip. I admit to having had some…
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Running
Unlike any of my characters, I am not an athlete. Yes, I swam competitively for a few years when I was a teenager, and I did flirt with both soccer and baseball at earlier points in my life. But somewhere along the way, I wound up taking the fork in the road that had me spending more time…
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Set Course for Las Vegas
Time once more to hobnob with my intergalactic friends.
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