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Apr.07.2012
I was having one of those weird 3 a.m. dreams.
I was trying to get somewhere, but I couldn’t seem to make any forward progress. It was like my feet were stuck. Then I heard a loud buzzing sound. Killer bees? A demonic golf cart? A brain-sucking vacuum cleaner? I opened one eye. I was in a huge room...
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Oct.06.2010
Did you know that the air conditioning doesn’t work while a plane is at the gate? We found this out in Phoenix when they held our flight for half an hour in a hundred-degree heat so they could replace the black box – you know the thing that tells them why you flew into the Rockies instead of over...
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Sep.21.2010
There is the old standard joke about asking directions in rural New England: “Oh, you can’t get thare from he-are.”
Of course very few people actually say that. It’s more of a physical expression.
“I’m trying to get back to Craigville Beach.”
The storeowner’s mouth opened, her eyebrows raised and...
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May.01.2010
With cellphones, email, texting, instant messaging and advances in mental telepathy, it’s almost impossible today to be out of touch with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Almost.
See, my wife went to France. France for those of you not familiar with it is that country that surrounds the Eiffel tower, and...
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Jan.09.2010
There are many complementary things in life: bread and butter; meat and potatoes; love and marriage; and… me and a giant Coastal Redwood tree.
I’m pretty tall. Heck, I used to be almost six feet (I’ve shrunk a little in the last decade). And I do have some interesting foliage (though that is...
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Oct.24.2009
I’m convinced that the person who coined the phrase “Getting There is Half the Fun” has not tried to get there recently.
Our trip to England began at the Santa Barbara Airport. The first leg of our flight to San Francisco was due to leave at 9:30 a.m., so dutifully were there at 8:15 a.m. That’s...
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