Yesterday, I had a few items to pick up at the grocery store for today’s dinner. Who wants to visit Wegmans the day before a holiday? I pictured shopping cart pile-ups, empty shelves, and much jostling to reach the potatoes, …
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I’m reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. The book asserts that we worry too much about the past and the future and do not spend enough time in the now. If we dwell too much in the future, …
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After spending a week in State College running Penn State’s iMBA residency program, a detour to Punxsutawney, PA, home of Phil, prognosticator extraordinaire, was in order. Having lived in Pennsylvania nearly all my life, I was raised with Groundhog lore, …
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Since I gave Best Western a nod in my wonderment of how nice an economy motel can be, I must do the same to Holiday Inn Express, the chain I used for the past two nights. In North Platte, NE, …
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Here’s something I wrote about Lollipop when I was at the writers’ retreat in Wyoming: “My horse, Lollipop, is the ugliest of the bunch. He’s the equivalent of a pale, thin, red-headed man. When I first saw him, I was …
Tuesday was the all-day mountain ride. You might wonder when we ever wrote, but there was plenty of time for that with scheduled literature sessions, writing prompts, and sharing of our writing every day. But you don’t really want to …
Since I can’t do too much on the Internet here in Wyoming, you could view some pictures on my Facebook page. You have to join Facebook, which is free, but the album is public, so you can view all the pictures …
Yesterday, we went on a three-hour horseback ride, and there was plenty to see. The landscape looks as if someone painted it with a brush. I took a few pictures from the back of my horse, Lollipop. Lollipop, is not …
Last night I stayed in Ogallala, Nebraska. I’m about three hours from my destination. The Ogallala Aquifer has its site locality here and runs under eight states in the Great Plains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer). The aquifer is being depleted at ever-increasing rates. …
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I’m at the writers’ retreat in Wyoming. This place is quite amazing. My room is outstanding. It’s about 15 feet from a river! I’ll eventually post pictures, but the Internet connection here is slow, so I’ll only be able to …
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