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25.02.10
Spin Pizza with Bob. First, Sonoma salad complete with red leaf, spinach, raisins, goat cheese, grapes, apples, glazed pecans and Blood Orange vinaigrette. My caramelized onion and goat cheese pizza was sweet and savory all at once. Washed down the pizza with house Chianti. An excellent little wine and pizza joint in Kansas City, MO.
Karlos [...]

Yesterday, Bob treated me to both lunch and dinner… and salsa lessons in between. First, homemade spinach ravioli at Andre’s Confiserie Suisse complete with cinnamon tea, cream filled cake covered in marzipan and fine coffee. Wow. Then salsa lessons… we got vid of a cool dance sequence for women… so I’ll be able to practice! [...]

From the Persian poet Rumi:
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
Where the two worlds touch
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep
Contemplation on the Phoenix process:
Named for the [...]

Oh life keeps jerking me up, down and side-to-side. Don’t really have much energy to elaborate too much. So just some quick notes:
Connecting with new people passionate about the Tarahumara every hour it seems. Kindred spirits. Connections, goals and timing so crazy spot on that it’s more than “coincidence.” Excitement!
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Timing not right with Fer. He’s [...]

Bob came by for lunch. He has treated me several times so this time I cooked him a veggie stir-fry with my infamous salad. Of course, I’ve learned yet more about Bob and his most interesting life pursuits. Looking forward to kicking it with him this weekend before I go.
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Had an invigorating swim and sauna [...]

I keep coming back to this idea of posting every day. Still working on making it stick. I tend to have two posting seasons: flood season and dry season. Ha. But, after discovering the journal entries from my first trip abroad in Italy (which I just published in Unearthing Firsts), I am once again inspired [...]

It was my first experience abroad. July 2004. Eighteen going on nineteen. Finally travelling to the country of which I had always dreamed. I scribbled much less than I experienced. But, there are some nuggets of reflection to enjoy from my one month studying abroad in Bergamo, Italy:
July 03 2004
Charming Italian man with piercing blue [...]

“I would rather live in a cardboard box on a street somewhere and make art, than spend my life in a cubicle doing something I didn’t want to do.” ~Dominique Elise
This quote from an up and coming artist caught my attention. Here’s more about the artist:
Her first album, “Outside Influence” (available on iTunes and CDBaby), [...]

I was fighting to make “base camp” work in Guatemala when this song hit the airwaves. Black Eyed Peas I’ve got a Feeling truly defines a most unforgettable part of my experience in Guatemala, especially with a tremendously close-knit group of friends I had while there. I cling to this song for so many of [...]

Bold and sassy. These tights make a statement! Lost at E Minor can be credited for finding and featuring these little must-haves from Le Queues de Sardines: