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Floating Like Superman

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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Strange but True

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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Reflections in a Mountain Town

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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A Life on Display

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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What are the odds?

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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Mid-Life Musings

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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The Hunt for the Northern Lights

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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Life on the Outskirts

“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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