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As a child learning to cross a street, I learned the following. I can still hear my father’s voice in my head. “First you look left to make sure no cars are coming, then you look right, then left again. Go!” Well, when it comes to driving a traffic circle,…
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Sitting there perched on a rock, life was good. The sun shone down on the five of us in our mountain meadow. We smiled, laughed, and shared stories. As we hiked back down to the trailhead, my spirit soared in a way I hadn’t felt in a long time. The…
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It happened overnight. The fan stopped running. Why did we have the fan running on a snowy night, you might ask. During summers with no air conditioning, a box fan to put in the window is indispensable. Having bought our home in June, we got used to the hum of…
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We’d walked by the sign day after day, week after week, and year after year. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have more acreage? We could build a trail for the dogs” I said. “Better yet, we’d be able to mitigate it and better protect our house from wildfires” my husband…
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