At 3:53 this morning, I woke in a sweat from a disturbing dream akin to a combination of the television show, “Shark Tank,” and the children’s movie, “Alice in Wonderland.”At the dream's beginning, I was with a couple I have worked with off and on over the years. In real life, I had sold them t
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07/29/2012
Earlier this week, after feeling overly saturated by news of the Aurora, Colorado tragedy, I found a simple and heartwarming story about 14-year-old Justin Shepard, who found a message in a bottle after 35 years. In today’s world of raucous incongruent happenings on a near daily basis, I wondered
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07/27/2012
The picture below is of the historical Mills Station Building, just over 100 years old. After it was built in 1911, the landmark served the Greater Sacramento community of Mills (now Rancho Cordova) as a commercial center, meeting place, post office, library, firehouse and even a gasoline statio
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07/25/2012
I suspect folks in other parts of the country will likely get a kick out of Californians getting wide-eyed during a thunder and lightening storm. After all these events often happen on a regular basis, elsewhere. But, Sacramento natives aren’t as familiar with this kind of activity in mid-summe
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07/23/2012
Last week while visiting Yosemite National Park with my grandson, I spotted this massive stone formation that reminded me a little of a lop-eared rabbit. You can see from the trees and brush in the background and foreground, that this is no small rock.It sits immediately to the right of the Glac
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07/20/2012
A couple days ago, when I posted pictures of my granddaughter Macie and I playing with her little pirate ship, I hadn’t processed all photos taken during the party which had lasted late into the evening. There were pirate activities going on until the Moon rose, and shared close space with Venus
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07/17/2012
Yesterday was our family’s annual pirate party. It began mid-afternoon, and lasted late into the evening. In the past, I had hosted the event at my home, in autumn, as close as possible to “Talk Like a Pirate” Day around September 19th.However, my 15 year-old grandson, John Luis is visiting fro
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07/15/2012
In recent years, I have made several visits to Yosemite National Park. During the dry 2007 draught year, Yosemite Falls in July had been reduced to a disappointing, barely perceivable trickle from atop the rocky face.However, a return trip in last summer, June 2011, the falls all through Yosemit
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07/13/2012
Saturday evening while meandering about town and completing errands, my car radio was tuned to Sacramento local station, KFBK, and “The United Law Center’s Ask Steve For Free” show.I often listen to attorneys, Steve Foondos and John Sargetis, who host the show, because they are a legal resource f
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07/08/2012
Sometimes, I think those of us, who are natural born American citizens, take for granted our citizenship. We may have yawned in school, during history class; or if we once had an interest, we have since forgot all we knew about the workings of our government, our history, etc.A couple days ago,
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07/07/2012
