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Category: travel

  • Of Castles

    I was reminded today of a trip I took last year with my parents, to Scotland, to celebrate my Dad’s retirement. It was an amazing trip; I was so glad to have been able to spend time exploring the Scottish towns and countryside with my very awesome parents. We had…

  • My Car, Cobie

    Today my car, a 1995 Honda Civic, broke down in the BART parking lot. Bless his little heart, he’d had enough and his distributor gave way, rendering me immobile, sitting in a parking lot for public transportation. There’s a bit of irony in that since I could not park the…

  • “Hope” or “Hate”

    The other day I was sitting at a stop light and noticed two cars, each with a bumper sticker: Car One: If you surrender to HATE you’ve already LOST Care Two: Got Hope? I was really struck by the two vastly different mindsets these stickers call upon. And what an…

  • Face to face with new heroes

    A long time ago (well maybe it was in 1995), I stood in line at the Virgin Megastore in San Francisco to see one of my heroes, Boy George. He was doing a book signing for his autobiography, “Take it Like a Man.” He was gracious. He was beautiful. I…