It’s All Maya!

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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Maya Muses:  From New York to San Francisco, with all sorts of stops in between, I just haven’t found time to update my blog but we’ll be slowing down shortly and I’ll be able to put photos of some of the great places we’ve been to so far!  Have to run because I have another […]

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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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There’s a phenomenon in the US that no other football team in the NFL can boast about except for the Pittsburgh Steelers!  The US can truly be called Steeler Nation!  I have been to every state in the continental US except for two and in every single state you will find not only die hard […]

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I’m more than happy that all 155 passengers and crew on US Airways Flight 1549 survived the emergency landing in the Hudson River minutes after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport yesterday afternoon. Everyone is saying it was a miracle that no one died and that ferry boats happened to be in the right place […]

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Patrick was talking to a Russian friend of his about the holidays and we got to talking about Winter Holidays outside the norm.  The norm of course depends on where you’re from. It goes without saying, Paris is not exotic to Parisians, nor is New York to New Yorkers.
One of the many exotic places I […]

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I don’t know about you, but am I the only one who feels like I wasn’t told about all these name changes taking place in cities around the world?!  Everytime I mention a major city in the world by name, I hesitate wondering if during the night someone didn’t come up with a new name and I’m […]

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Mia and I have been discussing a number of New Age concepts on my blog lately and Dr. Masaru Emoto just happened to come up in our comments.  Now if comments were any indication of who was reading my blog, I would assume that I have only two readers: Mia from Sweden and Tina from […]

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