Simple vs complicated people

I know you are not going to believe this, but HONEST, I am not writing this blog to get my stats up.  I rarely even check on them anymore.  In fact, I was shocked to realize today, since I rarely get comments, that I have a following.  “You do love me.”  Well, like at any [...]

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My plan to travel light

I love to travel, well actually I just love to be “there,”  wherever there is.  I am not a fan of the ‘getting there’ part.  I used to travel, marketing my artwork, cross country by car: sleeping in the van, shampooing in rest stops.  Now, I am opting for some type of teleporting transportation.  Come on, [...]

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Trains and sleeping chicks

I grew up in northern Indiana and went to college and worked in Chicago for many years.  I have taken buses and trains to get where I was going since 1974.  I remember early South Shore train seats that were woven wicker and the windows opened because there was no air-conditioning.  Yes, grasshopper, I am [...]

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What happened to the “Wow” factor???

Things are big to children. My daughters speak of the “big white house” we lived in when they were little. If I took them by that same house today, they would see a three bedroom prefab slightly larger than a double wide trailer.
I lived in a semi-rural area when I was growing up. Our school [...]

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We have an exciting future ahead of us!

I am so excited this morning. I heard the President’s speech about the high speed train system. I swear, every time he steps up to the mike, I get more hopeful for the future of this country.
Images of the future look positively clean and space-age, as gleaming trains speed across the country. Indiana to Wyoming [...]

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The proper way to fall down moguls

Coming from a totally non-athletic family, the joy of skiing came to me later in life.  It took a while for me to get over my fear of speed and I never really did enjoy the sport for the sheer speed of it, especially after skiing “kegger week” out west. 
 
There’s nothing like a drunk [...]

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“SHUT UP!” She said.

In reading blogs this morning, it’s how I start my brain, I came across The Window Seat: Ssshhhh, Quiet Please!.  It is a blog about all things travel.  Holly Burns had just taken a flight from San Francisco to London (well, last month).  That’s ten hours in a metal tube.  Let me repeat, ten hours [...]

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Life is too short, not to live it to the fullest

Were you ever in a relationship where you woke up one morning and said, ‘This person is making me old.’?
 
It’s not that they are actually making you old.  Mother Nature does a fine job of that on her own and when your genes add something like heart disease or cancer to the mix, it is [...]

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Let’s Play “Pretend Actor”

 I love Inside the Actors Studio .   Which, by the way, this website (the one I found) has not been updated since April of 2007.

 

At the end of every interview, James Lipton  asks the following questions, based on French television personality Bernard Pivot, after the Proust Questionnaire – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, which is actually much longer.
 
So, I [...]

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Moving: The long awaited Part II ORRRRRR—-

THE MOST EXPENSE MOVE ON EARTH!
 
PICTURE THIS:
1.     House sells and you aren’t sure you want to but you are now stuck.
2.     Two weeks pass and you refuse inspections, thus begging out of the whole thing. Whew!
3.     And, way too good realtor hands you next offer. Shit!
4.     Not knowing why you accept it, you do and [...]

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