It’s All Maya!

 
Maya Muses:  The title says it all!  Happy Birthday Mom!  I wish I was there with you celebrating you being 88 years young!  You’re an amazing woman and we’re so lucky to have you as a mom!!!  Love and miss you so much!  (Pack your bags and come to Paris!)

Mom taking a rest from gardening.

Mom in […]

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Maya Muses:  And the French think that the people in Belgium don’t know how to let their hair down and have a good time!

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I know, I know, Hemingway was speaking figuratively when he spoke about Paris being a moveable feast, but for the past month since arriving back in France it has literally been a moveable feast!  We have done nothing but travel  throughout France eating, drinking, and socializing with family and friends.

We arrived in Paris and left […]

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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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C.C. and Izzy blowing out the candles!

Okay, so here’s the scenario when we got to Phoenix!  Ten of us in a rented mini bus arrived for Isabella’s 3rd birthday (my brother’s grand-daughter).  His youngest daughter C.C. was celebrating her 18th birthday as well,….. so we were ready to party and party we did!
A few days […]

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Maya Muses:  A friend put this photo on her Facebook page and I just had to share it.  Talk about precision, I don’t think those seagulls could have positioned themselves better, and talk about being in the right place at the right time to snap this picture!  Laurent Fontaine from Bordeaux just happened to take […]

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New Year’s Eve in Times Square is a once in a lifetime experience and now I know why!  Anyone would be crazy to do it more than once!
Getting to Times Square at 3:00 in the afternoon was already far too late.  Times Square was filling up faster than a Black Friday Christmas sale!  Katarina, Patrick, […]

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Maya Muses:  A Peaceful and a very Merry Christmas to everyone!  Sending warm wishes to Sean and David Goldman and their family for finally being reunited and back in the States after a five year battle!  I’ll write more about that later, but it was great news for everyone following this saga for a number […]

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Finally!  After the entire month of November spent packing up our belongings, Patrick and I made it to my mother’s house!  We thought it would never end!
I knew I was overdoing it when I averaged 4 to 5 hours of sleep each day! Yes, day!  We were working around the clock.  I would go to […]

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