Work related myths like working through lunch and the weekend: Was there a time when you fell for them? These are just a few of the myths I bought into during my first three careers. It was only when I started working for myself, and later writing fiction, when I discovered just how vast was […]
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Three seconds: time for worlds to end Three seconds, the time it takes to blink, yawn or for our whole world to end. I’ve been thinking, once again, about time. About how slippery it is, about how we tend, naturally, to think we have all the time in the world, preferring not to ponder the
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After four months on the central coast of California, we are back home here in the high desert. I am acutely aware of the disorientation that travel causes for a host of reasons; fatigue, loss of familiar places and even, a process of re-acquaintance with our new surroundings, amplified by major topographical changes: The Pacific
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The affluent and homeless This is the land of beautiful people, perfect weather and stunning coastlines but in the marginal areas along the back, rarely traveled dirt paths to the stunning dunes of Oceano beach are the homeless: Skinny, filthy and hollering loudly at the rising sun, the guy was either stoned or psychotic, or
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I remember when camping meant a tent, sleeping bags, listening to the raccoons nimbly flip off the top of the metal garbage container and nights where the stars were so dense and the milky way created such a wide swath through the sky that most of the black night is obscured. That was camping. For
Einstein and Picasso meet at a bar…. Who could resist going to see a play with an opening lure like that? For the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre, the Sunday afternoon performance was the last of the run of a play by Steve Martin called, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and it was sold out.
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” So you’re a war dog.” I was talking to the beautifully marked German Shepherd standing next to a second brown and white fairly large second dog; both were tethered together by the RV and were looking toward the owner of the pair of feet, the remainder of his body hidden by the red pick-
A friend on the east coast recently asked for my perspective on immigration since I live in the west and I had to think about how to reply. I consider myself apolitical and have trouble with the labels of Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative and immigration seems to be a decidedly political issue. But
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Lin Wilder has a doctorate in Public Health from the UT Houston with a background in cardiopulmonary physiology, medical ethics, and hospital administration
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