It’s All Maya!

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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Probably a lot of young people have never even heard of the song, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, but for any Baby Boomer, this was a big Glen Campbell hit back in the 60s!  Well, we got to Phoenix (ten of us!) and after the snow in New York and Pittsburgh, a balmy, […]

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I don’t know how many times I’ve sat down in front of my computer lately ready to write something and can’t think of anything I really want to say.  I’ve started several blog posts with just one or two sentences and then just sat there looking at an almost blank screen with no incentive to […]

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Maya Muses:  Most people think of firewords for le 14 juillet, but for years my ex would drag me out of bed to go see the fighter planes and the helicopters flying over Paris.   At times we would arrive just a little too late; afterall when you’re up dancing until the wee hours of the morning […]

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In 1979 I met a young Iranian girl, Sharareh, who had come to Paris to study French.  Her father brought her to France and then returned to Iran.  Sharareh was left alone for the first time in her life in a strange city and a strange country, but she was excited to be in Paris and we became […]

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