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Headlights In the Rain

Posted in domestic violence, memoir on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

[Written a couple of years ago and posted on a previous blog.  This one is non-fiction, straight from my childhood.]
I was so tired. I wanted to be home, warm, safe, in my bed, but I wasn’t. My mother and my brothers and sisters and I were walking home from the movies. It [...]

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Update + A Story

Posted in domestic violence, fiction, tagged , , , on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’m back from my trip. What a trip. I will write lots about it but time is getting away from me these days. I haven’t even unloaded the car and I’ve been back a week. I’m in the middle of doing a lot of stuff including going through over 1,000 photos! [...]

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Heading Home

Posted in travel, tagged , , , on October 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Our flight is in about 18 hours.  It has been a fantastic trip but it’s time to go home.  We’ll be in the U.S. on Saturday afternoon but I won’t be home to Portland for a few days as I’ll be staying in he Bay Area to see a new niece, Trinity.  She was born [...]

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Crikey!

Posted in travel, tagged , , , , on October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »

We left Melbourne on Saturday and flew to Cairns.  It was a super early day for us.  We had to get up at 4:30 for a 5:30 am taxi pickup to the airport.  Yuck.  But we made it fine and enjoyed the flight to Cairns, although JetStar’s service and their staff leave a lot to [...]

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Down Under

Posted in travel, tagged , , , , , , on October 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Not a lot of time today but below you’ll find pictures from Wednesday (Tuesday in the U.S.A.).  I am also posting on Facebook and trying to post different pics here and there.  I’m a bit limited because I only have my netbook with an 8 inch screen so I can’t edit pictures very well because [...]

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No Worries!

Posted in travel on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I love this Aussie expression most of all!  What a thought, “no worries”!
It rained in the early morning but by the time we got out of the hotel (’round 9) it had stopped raining, mostly.  We took the free City Circle tram, which has a stop almost right outside our hotel door, into Elizabeth Street [...]

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G’day Mate!

Posted in travel, tagged , , on October 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Just a short post from down under…
After over an hour delay out of LAX, we headed into the wild black yonder (12:45 am) and a 15.5 hour flight.  Arrived in Melbourne at 9:15 AM local time.  Airport was a breeze, including Customs.
The tough part was trying to stay awake and active all day so we [...]

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A Note From the Rebellious One

Posted in life's little treasures, tagged , , on October 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »

In the previous post I wrote about a high school teacher who taught his class a wonderful lesson by accident.
When I wrote about this for a class in the summer of 2000,  I thought how wonderful it would be to contact Mr. K and let him know what an impact his accidental lesson had made [...]

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