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It’s a Brand New Year, and before we fill it up with our usual level of high jinx and adventure, I thought I’d take a moment to celebrate the concept of blankness. A blank page. A new chapter. An untread path. The year is waiting to be explored and we can hardly wait for the […]
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Ken and Alex enjoyed the Inaugural Reno Bighorns game last week. The Bighorns are the new NBA Development team here in town. And for those of you who are dying to know, their NBA affiliates are the Kings and the Knicks. But for us, it’s just exciting to have NBA basketball in town even a […]
posted in: Balance, Places We Go, Things We Do
So last year, we enjoyed a carriage ride with Santa at the Summit Sierra Mall. But given the chance of snow flurries, blustery winds and all out blizzards in our parts, Santa wisely moved himself into Dillards this year. And I don’t blame him. Truly, I don’t. I, too, would want to be inside the […]
posted in: Family, Holidays, Things We Do
It wouldn’t be a change in the weather around these parts without a quote from Mark Twain – “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” That quote is so very true for us living here in the Sierra foothills. This time of year the clouds gather into their winter formations and there […]
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I’ve always loved fantasy literature. I even took a class in it as an undergrad at UC Berkeley. And of course, The Chronicles of Narnia rank as my favorite children’s books of all time. So it was my great hope that at least one of my children would share this love with me. I discovered […]
posted in: Balance, Family, People We Love, Things We Do
I am sure you already guessed that we were glued to our TV set last night, waiting for the results. Alex had a map of the United States and was labelling the states red or blue as the results came in. For once, the kids didn’t ask to turn to the Disney channel. We made […]
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Just a gentle reminder…if you haven’t turned in your Absentee Ballot or done the Early Vote thing, like me… Don’t forget!