Moonlight on High Country Snows and Rain in the Desert

As I drove across Garland Prairie last week, the light of a full moon illumined the snow and the pines, casting deep shadows across the frozen ground. It was a beautiful and a bittersweet sight. The song of a great horned owl greeted me as I got out of my car and crunched through the [...]

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Dancin’ With the River

Fun, friends, hikes up side canyons to hot springs, wildlife–it was soooo good to get out on the river! The weather was absolutely perfect–low eighties air temp, low fifties water temp. The sky was clear and we had a full moon. It was a real stroke of luck for it to be so [...]

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On the Track and Picking Up Steam

It’s been over a week since I last posted, so I thought I’d do a brief update at least…
I spent most of last week in Phoenix job-hunting and apartment-scouting. I’ve got a line on a guitar teaching position at a music store, which I will know more on at the end of this week, [...]

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A Time To Build Up, A Time To Break Down…

There are a lot of things on the upside of this latest development. For one thing, the last time I lived in Phoenix, I moved down there just ahead of the summer season and left at the end of a long, hot summer. Not very good timing. This time, I’m at least in better tune [...]

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Sunflowers in the Arizona Sunshine

It’s getting close to the last hurrah for the wild sunflowers that dot my yard and line Arizona’s roadways in the late summer. They are definitely getting close to “bloomed out.” These two pictures were taken about a week ago in my front yard. The ones I saw today, on my return trip from Phoenix, [...]

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Transcending Trauma

It’s been almost thirty years now and I’m living proof that trauma can be transcended. It is possible not only to survive, but to thrive. What follows is some rather unconventional advice. It’s just what has worked for me.
Forgiveness and Forgetting
Forgive? You will be advised to forgive – usually immediately – by well-meaning people who [...]

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Time to Get Serious

Stepping on the scale this morning told the tale. I’ve lost 34 pounds the last year, four of those since my first weight loss post. This means my rate of loss has slowed from about four pounds per month down to two pounds per month.
That’s alright, since I am well over half way to where [...]

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Another Gig – Another Lesson, or Three

Wednesday night’s gig at “the Bean” (Campus Coffee Bean in Flagstaff) went well. I also learned a couple of things that surprised me a bit.
After a brief bout with the sound system (troubleshooting the vocal mic which wasn’t working properly), I got everything going and had a lot of fun with the gig. Three [...]

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Arizona Highlands Sunrise

One Way to Become an Early Riser: Elmo has been making a habit of cavorting around the bedroom in the wee hours of the morning and waking me up. Meowing and little cat paws tromping across my belly have a way of ending a peaceful night’s dreams and launching my day earlier than expected. The [...]

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Heartache

I got a phone call from my mom this afternoon and when she warned me that I’d better sit down, that the news was bad, I did. She’d been down to get her mail and learned that last night a fellow firefighter and friend of mine from the old days on the department had been [...]

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Hold On

Getting back to blogging after about a week away…first a trip to Phoenix and then leaving my Power Book cord at my friends’ place kind of crimped my Internet activities for a few days.
It was a good trip to Phoenix – Memorial Day weekend with F1 and F2, finished up with a flamenco guitar lesson. [...]

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RIVER TRIP!!!!

Alright! A kayak trip on the Colorado in October! A small trip with friends, and it’s free…does it get any better than this? Two days of paddling, water, and sun below Hoover Dam, plus hanging out in the hot springs. Aaaaaaahh.

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Second Childhood

Yesterday was a busy day. I attended a concert, prepped for gigs, did some promotional work, and got my “flamenco nails” filled in. Yesterday also taught me something about how I’ve changed recently.
Who’d have thought? It seems that there is a glut of harp players in Flagstaff, at least as far [...]

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OMG, He’s Right!

It’s a gorgeous spring morning on the prairie. The birds are singing and it’s warm, clear, and calm. I’m a little bleary-eyed, however. I stayed up until 2:00 a.m. getting the audio station set up. I was not going to let another day go by with all that junk sitting on [...]

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Well, Now I’ve Done It…

Sometimes I’m amazed at this “intuition thing.” I certainly had no conscious foreknowledge of the synchronicities that were going to unfold today, but I was still prepared for them!
Yesterday, one of my web clients asked me if there was something else I did besides web design that she could refer people to me for. [...]

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