Last week we kayaked across Buntzen Lake, a 45-minute drive from home. I tested my paddling skills by chasing a floating leaf hoping for the perfect photo I had in mind. And I thought back through paddles I enjoyed (more easily) in our former life, on a small island.
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While The Blog and I are taking a Summer Vacation, I thought I’d line up a few posts from Way Back in the Archives in case you want to browse them while I’m “away.” Here’s one from The Blog’s very first month, July 2007, 15 years ago (I know, I can’t believe I’ve been here that long either!). That fellow’s birthday’s being celebrated again today, and to me, he looks scarcely any older . . .
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Summertime, and the living is. . . delightful, but not as easy as when we were younger and had more energy! We’ve been hanging out a fair bit with a very energetic (and much younger!) crowd this summer, and I’m doing some Activity Triage here. Maybe this happens in your summer as well?
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I could have worn these sneakers with that skirt to our “dinner and a (live theatre) show” last week, but you probably agree that the combo skews too casual-quirky. So new shoes were on my shopping list — and I found them. Took them for a walk in a gorgeous garden the next day as well. Come walk with me, and I’ll show you, please!
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Wandering the sinuous, narrow vicoli of the old island city of Ortigia last month, I should have paid more attention to what turns my husband was taking just ahead. Instead, I found myself alone in the labyrinth, wondering where the man in the red pants had gone. . . But what an enticing labyrinth it was. . .
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