There we were, in the middle of the night, on a boat just off the Kona coast putting on our fins and snorkels. It was happening. My son Anders, my daughter Tatum, and my husband...
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Here is what is strange but true, the cashier at the CVS on Hollywood Blvd. and Vine doesn’t care how I lost my phone charger, even though it explained why I was there to buy...
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I sat judging the man from my seat at the bar. And a bar stool, as many know, is a perfect spot from which to judge. The man looked out of place in this crowded...
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Our townhouse in Denver overlooks a beautiful park. On the edge of the park, there is a public outdoor fitness course which one man in the entire Denver Metro area uses. On that morning, he...
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Every so often, just when you think you’re going to make good time on knocking out the day’s “to do” list, you have an encounter that grinds time to a halt. Such was an encounter...
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I couldn’t believe it, I had run out of gas. After 15 years I knew my Toyota well. I knew that the needle on the gas gauge could hover in the red zone for miles...
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A couple of years ago, I was at the hair salon explaining to my 20-something-year-old stylist why we were moving from Colorado all the way to Alaska. It was a question I got a lot,...
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Every once in a while I look up, and I’m reminded that I live in Alaska. That reminder may come in the form of a stunning view, or as a large mounted animal head (they’re...
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“The Hunt” Act I: “It’s not at the restaurant,” my husband Mark says, starting to panic. He had used my cell to inquire about his own, which he thought he must have left at the...
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