January 2, 2019 Planners/Thinkers/Writers/Doers Block. Not a particularly propitious way to begin a new year. Especially since I’m taking time off this week to enthusiastically launch all of the above. New Year’s Day was special admittedly—a near-blizzard snow day in Albuquerque warrants continuing my Un village français binge…but how to leave a story with only four episodes to go…impossible. I’ve lived in this WWII-era, Nazi-occupied French village off and on for the… Read More
Category: LIFE/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY Tags: 2019, Albuquerque, bingeing, introvert, list-maker, New Year, PHOTOGRAPHY, resolutions, TV series, Un village français, writer's block
2018 has been a year of preparation—for 2019 when I join the ranks of the old-old (although that doesn’t officially happen until I cannot make it up Black Mountain). However it is year’s end and here I am—still unprepared. I’ve tried. I have really tried. Climbing up and down the side of that schooner in heavy gear and walking the 10K in the Duke City Marathon. Allotting the reading of history as… Read More
Category: LIFE/HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY Tags: 2018, 2019, ageing, BLACK MOUNTAIN, blogging, Christmas Cactus, Family, New Year's Resolutions, Norway, old-old, PHOTOGRAPHY, resolutions, Sleazy T., SWEDEN, Travel, Writing
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