It’s All Maya!

2012 went out beautifully and 2013 came in just as lovely. Patrick and I declined invitations to ring in the new year among friends. Instead we opted to stay home and have a quiet dinner just the two of us.

To work up an appetite, we walked around le Bon Marché and admired the windows […]

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I was knee high to a grasshopper* at the time, but I still remember that day so long ago!!!  “Love, love me do.  You know I love you….”  Lyrics that any kid could remember and who wanted to be cool like a teenager.  I wasn’t a teenager yet and I definitely wasn’t cool, but I […]

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Two of my cousins came to Europe in February on a whirlwind tour of Amsterdam, Brussels, Brugge, and Paris.  They couldn’t have chosen a better time to come.  Uhh, that is if you happen to be Eskimos or you just love freezing Siberian weather!  They froze their butts off even wearing 5 layers of clothing […]

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Okay, so it was one of those mornings where I was up early and out the door running around.  I came home, had lunch and then was getting ready to get some work done when I came upon this video.  Talk about making my day!  It’s always great when something makes you laugh outright!  Not […]

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It’s said that as we get older time passes more quickly, well I must be ancient because time just keeps zooming by and it’s downright scary!!!  Patrick and I had planned several parties over the holidays, but before we knew it, the time had come and gone and we were still in the planning stages.

Christmas […]

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Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
I met ten refugees from Tibet not too long ago.  They had been given political asylum in France and were happy to be here while missing their homes, their families, and their friends.

Kangchenjunga, Himalayas
They told me how they had walked across the Himalayas from their homeland to Nepal.  It had taken them […]

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Geraldine, Anne & Fernanda
A couple of friends and I went to Madrid to surprise another friend of ours for her birthday!  It was great fun getting together and hiding out at Geraldine’s apartment before surprising her mom on her birthday!

Javier Bardem sent over a bottle of champagne.
I was the first to arrive and the weather […]

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Last night Mom, Bob, Patrick and I went to see America in concert.  Talk about memories!  Two of the three original members who started the group, Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, graduated from high school in 1969 and by the following year were playing their first gigs as the group, America.  Michael Woods (guitar/keyboard) and […]

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(School Days - Mom, middle row, far left.)
My mom is an extraordinary woman who had a difficult life as a young child and some of her earliest memories are those that sound like a Stephen King novel turned into a horror movie.  Painful memories that anyone would want to forget, so I won’t go into […]

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Maya Muses:  I couldn’t have said it better and besides, Andy Rooney is a really smart guy!

“As I grow in age, I value women over 50 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why:

A woman over 50 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, ‘What are you thinking?’ […]

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