Category: family & friends
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A final road trip
UPDATE 06-10-11: I just heard this song and realized it captures perfectly what this weekend meant to me. Go call your family, hug your kids. Time is precious. Don’t waste it. ———————- I have spent the last couple of weeks getting ready for what I dubbed “Ashes to Ashes: A Memorial.” It started out as…
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A fun weekend in which we run the Bay to Breakers fully clothed and make a big decision
This past Sunday was the Bay to Breakers (B2B for short), which for those of you who don’t live in California and/or live in a cave, is a 12K road race held annually in San Francisco. The name comes from the course which starts near the Embarcadero (the Bay), runs through Golden Gate Park and…
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Catching up & catching my breath
It’s been an action-packed month for Chuck and me, and I feel like we haven’t had a chance to just chill in weeks (probably because we haven’t). Work has kept us super busy – converting a big website to Drupal is no casual undertaking – and it’s also grant time when the annual gathering of…
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A final farewell, with much love
My aunt died this morning. She was 85. She was also the baby of her family and the last surviving sibling of my mother. It’s funny to talk about the baby of a family being 85. We called her Auntie A (her older sister was Auntie B), a tradition started by my oldest sister Mary…
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Westminster Centennial
We just spent four days in Colorado visiting family and attending the Westminster, CO (Chuck’s hometown)Â Centennial kick-off event. It was a pretty low-key affair, with a very small town feel to it (though with a population of over 100,000 people it’s not all that small anymore – when Chuck’s family moved there, it had a…
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Out with the old, in with the new (year, that is!)
Well, it’s holiday season and Chuck and I have been fa-la-la-ing our hearts out. First up, right after Thanksgiving, it was time for the annual Christmas light installation. This took a solid weekend and Chuck enlisted the help of our friends Kyra and Tim and their kids (this relieved my mind because it meant that…
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