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Stories of love songs

Cyndi and I recently celebrated 29 years of marriage, and as an anniversary gift to myself I made this collection of songs to play on my iPod … and in my truck, and on my computer, and to share with friends. I am drawn to love songs on the assumption that they were […]

Retreat

Cyndi and I were sharing a delicious peanut-butter-and-jelly picnic lunch under the warm California sun in a small park near city hall when she said, “Maybe Ventura is a thin place for you.” She said it after I’d rattled off the contents from a batch of 3×5 cards, the insights and observations I’d […]

Ventura days

Cyndi’s father, Bill Richardson, convinced us to upgrade our rental car to a convertible since we were in California for four days and the weather was wonderful. We followed Rich up Highway 1 in our Chrysler Sebring to a restaurant called Gladstone’s on the beach north of Santa Monica, where we ate peanuts […]

A look inside

I’ve always wanted to look inside myself. Now that I have, it turns out to be cooler than I imagined. A little invasive maybe, but I’ve made it this far in my life with very little invasion and few embarrassing doctor visits, so I can’t complain about that.
I’m talking about a colonoscopy that […]

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