It’s All Maya!

Years ago, in the States, Patrick and I were going to have dinner at a friend’s place.  Dinner was at 6:30 so I was ready to jump into the shower around 6 p.m.  After all, who eats dinner at 6:30?  Having spent a good part of my life in Europe where dinner didn’t start before […]

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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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Chilean miner after being rescued.
I was watching the Chilean miners being rescued live on the internet this morning!  Incredible images that are amazing and emotional to watch showing the miners 2300 ft. below and the work that was done to rescue the 33 men trapped since the beginning of August!  I think everyone in Camp […]

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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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First on Thursday evening an Austrian tour bus (some reports say it was a German tour bus) fell into the Seine! Thank goodness no one was in the bus that sunk within a matter of minutes.

Maya Muses:  It reminds me somewhat of our boating accident last year. Something I would rather forget!Then Saturday afternoon a […]

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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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Mode of transportation in DC.
The saying, “when it rains, it pours” is true, but have you noticed that the opposite is also true?  When all the planets are aligned and everything just falls into place, it’s like the gods are all smiling down upon you.  Well that’s exactly how our trip to DC was.  Everywhere […]

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This is what we left behind….

This is what greeted us!
We left El Paso with warm weather and sunny skies and landed in Pittsburgh where a blizzard was brewing!  As a matter of fact, all flights into Pittsburgh were cancelled; only ours and two others, were the only flights that landed on an icy runway.  When […]

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El Paso:  I love El Paso.  It’s a place where you can breath because of the vast openness of the desert.  Where the stars are as big as ripe apples and you feel that you can just reach out and pluck one down from the sky.  I see the beauty that surrounds this border town, […]

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