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Well, I’m on the road, again.  Or eternally, as it feels.  Plagued with dizzying jetlag and the memory of more airports than I can fathom, I wonder to myself when all this travel will end. Alas, it’s not for the foreseeable future, and once my spacey jet-lagged brain heals, I’m sure I’ll think that’s a […]

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New York City confounds me.  It’s unmanageably large, bafflingly complex and so impossibly incomprehensible as to make you feel that you will never, – not even after six visits to the city – ever, wrap your mind around the place and “get” it. I’ve found myself often preferring “smaller” cities in response to the unnerving […]

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I have been avoiding writing this blog entry for several weeks now.  I am waiting for that inspiration which has propelled my blog these last few months.  I have been getting such nice comments on my blog lately, and – though very nice to hear – I think I am starting to feel the pressure […]

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There’s something about the beach that just feels like home.  No matter where in the world it is.  As long as it has a few key features, like a long, flat, walkable beach, soft, smooth, unlettered sand, and a few seaside creatures that wash up on shore.This morning, I woke up before most of Montanita, […]

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