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June 19 , 2023 /

KAHLID AND I

Early last Friday morning, we find our way to the Instituto Nacional de Migración in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.  We started the process at the Mexican Consulate in Tucson to apply for temporary residence in Mexico for a year. At the end of this year we will decide whether to extend this residency

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June 9 , 2023 /

OUR NEXT ADVENTURE

Last summer, our big trip was through eastern Canada and the Maritimes, including Newfoundland, a 10,000 mile sojourn in our Leisure Travel Van.  Previous adventures over the past quarter century took us to Europe several times, through the Panama canal, a two-year stint in London, a cruise to the south Pacific islands, sailing the Croatian

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April 28 , 2023 /

DESIGNING PERSONAL CHANGE – LOOKING AHEAD

When you look at where you are, who you are and how you got here, it is unlikely the same kind of thinking and acting will get you to where you want to be.  Marshall Goldsmith summed it up in his book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.”  (Hachette Books, 2007)   Making

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February 22 , 2023 /

LENT 2023 – ANOTHER SEASON, ANOTHER YEAR

I have had years of an ongoing conversation, mostly with myself, about these 40+ days that begin in the liturgical calendar with Ash Wednesday, just after Shrove or Fat Tuesday, and continue until just before Easter. April 9  this year.  Historically Lent was a time of fasting and prayer in the organized church, a penitential

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February 17 , 2023 /

POST FROM SAN CARLOS, SONORA, MX

Remember post cards?  After 1901, postcards typically measured 3.5 x 5.5 inches, although variations in size exist. In the 1960s, some printers began producing 4 x 6 inch postcards.  They had some kind of photo on the front, often of a place being visited or some attraction in that place.  On the back was a

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February 12 , 2023 /

SPREADING MANURE

This is for real, not a metaphor for the shit storms we have witnessed recently in several quarters. Those emit a different kind of smell from this job that I had in 1973.  This post was inspired by someone asking what job I had that would surprise most people.   I had just finished a

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