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A Place To Call Home 6 Jan 2013 | 05:21 am
I've called Chico home for 30 years. I know it like the back of my aging hand, like a mother knows the sound of her baby girl's cry. I can blindly navigate the curves along Vallombrosa as I drive t...
Unbraiding My Life 22 Dec 2012 | 11:33 pm
When you're about to lose everything that's important to you, making the decision to change your life is easy. And so it was for me; Just over a year ago I turned by back on life as I knew it and gav...
Intention 22 Mar 2012 | 07:08 am
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 in·ten·tion ( n-t n sh n) n. A course of action that one intends to follow. I’ve been Soul Searching; at best a messy expedition that involves a 1000-watt hea...
The 80s 24 Mar 2011 | 03:21 pm
Rewind about 20 years. I was in my early 20s when my now-ex husband and I rented a funky old house on East 8th Street in Chico. It was a house built in the early 1900s with lots of nooks and crannie....
Living and Boats 22 Mar 2011 | 02:34 pm
It is a Saturday afternoon last summer and I'm teetering on the edge of a mid-life "thing". Not a full-blown crisis, but I'm definitely feeling like jumping ship. I am positively sick of cooking dinne...
Crazy and Happy 6 Feb 2011 | 07:37 am
I am a writer, which means-- quite simply--I'm a little crazy. A tad off-kilter. Despite outer appearances, most of us writers are shy souls who ironically have selected the one activity in life tha....
Refilling The Bucket 23 Jan 2011 | 09:26 am
It could have been a Tuesday when it happened, or maybe a Saturday. I do know it was 1995, and I had spent several days talking to myself about the things in my life I wanted to do before I died. I wa...
Pizza and Butterflies 10 Jan 2011 | 05:28 pm
I am rarely surprised by people or circumstance, so this New Year has tipped me completely off-center, rendering me awkwardly similar to a 15-year old school girl with a high school crush: I met a cut...
Trip Around the Sun 4 Jan 2011 | 04:02 pm
What a difference a year makes. Rewind 365 days, please. It's New Year's Eve, 2009 and I'm about ready to tear into a $15.78 crab from Safeway. I start nicely, ladylike, but after two minutes of Miss...
It's All Good 23 Oct 2010 | 07:22 pm
My daughter and I have lived on our own since she was about 2 ½. She has a loving relationship with her father, but most of the time, it’s just she and I. It’s not what I imagined. When the marriage ...
