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Bethia, a friendly acquaintance, and 2 friends came in the store wearing their helmets.  They may be in their sixties but they have bodies like girls of 14 (actually not so many girls of 14 are that lean and toned).  A testament to bicycling.  They’d just cycled around the reservoir–starting somewhere on the other side [...]

Proprietors of a recently established shop in town, selling furniture–some of it  antique–interesting oddities and jewelry, decided to decorate the side of the building which housed 4 businesses (now 3), with an antique trompe l’oeil painting they’d acquired at a regional auction.  They liked how the subtle grays of the oversized window rendering (there being [...]

It’s 7:20 p.m. on Sunday evening (6/28), we’re sipping wine on our balcony and hear a clop-clop-clop sound.  A man and a woman are driving by in a cart pulled by two draft horses–maybe Percherons?–and for a second I think the horses might spook as a car approaches in the opposite lane.  And then I [...]

I’ve blogged alot in my head and on various scraps of paper over the last few months.  Wonder if I can ethically back-date a few posts.  Will ask Randy Cohen when I see him. Meanwhile, this is very current: it’s raining and dreary again, tho it’s the summer solstice, and in our dreams, if not [...]

  You may have to wait for the end of this post to understand the Andes connection.  But, here goes.  I received an email from a woman whose name I recognized, someone I went to high school with and hadn’t seen or heard about in 30 years.  She reached me via Facebook, even though I [...]