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2017
Family, hiking, friends and yoga -- Four great things for me to be thankful for today (every day, really.)After work yesterday my daughter and I took a hike in the Presidio, reaching this coastal bluff just as the sun set. A magical moment we'll treasure for a long, long time.Now a friend is on h...
03/30/2017
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Almost Wordless Wednesday ..."Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but a...
03/22/2017
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Our Active Rain friend, mentor and coach, Lou Ludwig, wrote an exceptionally good piece this morning. We CAN handle it; we WILL handle it. Don't you agree? You Can Handle It “You are given what you can handle . . . . Just sometimes it’s a little more than you would like it to be . . . . but you ...
03/22/2017
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I am a bit of a contrarian since have an aversion to buying something because of the brand name. I buy Joe's O's instead of Cheerios; I buy ibuprofen rather than Motrin; dish washing liquid rather than Dove or Palmolive.That being said, there are a few brands that have earned my loyalty, where su...
03/21/2017
Yesterday, in honor of St. Patrick's Day...and because we could, and because the sun was shining... we enjoyed eating lunch at the Fort Mason Community Garden, where I'm having fun with my long-awaited garden plot. The ceanothus (the large bushes in the picture, with blue blossoms - a California ...
03/18/2017
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Paul Henderson is sponsoring a challenge this month, asking us to share the most unique or special place in which we've lived. His own story is amazing as you'll see when you read his challenge post and mine is quiet ordinary in comparison. After growing up in one suburban community in northern C...
03/13/2017
One of our wise Active Rain members, Barry Owen, wrote a post this morning full of wisdom on two different fronts, personal and business. We need to take preventive measures both with ourselves and with our businesses.Be sure to go to Barry's post to leave comments. Most people visit their Doctor...
03/09/2017
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Some days one just needs an extra dose of beauty to put the world right again, at least ones own little world. The Presidio in San Francisco is a source of beauty, one I never tire of visiting. Sometimes solitude is what I need, just a place to sit and breathe can works wonders; other times laugh...
03/05/2017
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The extreme shortage of homes for sale on the San Francisco Peninsula includes the Town of Belmont. Today that number is six; on Monday there were 8. That's right, in a town with a population of over 26,000 there are only 6 single-family homes currently for sale. Here's a rundown of those six: 2 ...
03/02/2017
As has been the case for the last number of years, San Carlos has an extreme shortage of houses on the market listed for sale.Today that number is eight. That's right, in a town with a population of over 29,000 there are only 8 single-family homes currently for sale. Here's a rundown of those eig...
02/28/2017
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