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The Gospel According to Gladys Knight & the Pips
One of the things my parents unintentionally passed on to me is a keen understanding of music history. No, I never spent hours being lectured about the great classical composers of the 15th-17th centuries- I learned about greats like Patsy Cline, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, The Righteous Brothers, Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, The [...]
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Hello Society…We Meet Again
Posted on 09 May 2010
Three Saints Bay was the very first Russian settlement in Alaska. The year was 1784. A mere eight years later, the whole inlet was wiped out by a tidal wave and the surviving citizens moved the community north to what is now the city of Kodiak. To this day, no one lives in Three Saints [...] Continue Reading
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All In The Family
Posted on 21 March 2010
Getting to spend time with my family reminds me of how imperfect our little unit is. We are loud, wild, crude and we tend to be so overtly sarcastic to the point that mom is about to pull out her hair. But getting to spend time with the family also reminds me how much I [...] Continue Reading
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A Means To An End
Posted on 08 August 2009
A few years ago I met a guy (I will call him Bob) at a non-profit event I was attending. Bob was a really nice guy. We sat for a while at the fundraiser’s reception and talked under the beautiful Southern California night. Bob asked me about my work and I could see the wheels [...] Continue Reading
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The Prettiest Ugly Places
Posted on 05 April 2009
Over the past few years, I have grown increasingly obsessed with The Great Southwest…particularly the desert regions. One of the things I love most is how absolutely rugged and untenable the desert is. Plus, to me, it’s just absolutely gorgeous. I have yet to visit a majority of the biggest attractions in the American Southwest, [...] Continue Reading
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