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Sisters & Peach Gazpacho
When I go home, my childhood home, one of the first things I like to do is shop for seasonal fresh produce. It’s a way for me to join with my two sisters who live there to renew our lifelong love of fresh food. The seasonal produce, the kitchen, the table are all part of…
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Mojave
Leaving the Colorado River, the ascent to Golden Valley through Union Pass surround him in the sky island mountains, rocks that have broken free of the earth’s crust and take the sky. The shale spires outlast eroded mesas, fire and time. Teddy bear cactus, ototilla and yucca bush thrive here as if it call out…
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Violet Mae
It had been at one of the lavish soirees held at the country estate of Stephen McKibbon that I met her. What struck me was the raspy laugh, a chortle accented with a slight side tilt of her head. I had fallen for the most glamorous woman west of the Canadian River. Her look gave…
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Finding Zen In Searchlight: A Haibun
Originally posted on Along the Way: The tracks of Highway 95 are laid down along the Mojave and run north and south between Las Vegas and Laughlin. About mid-way the highway comes to the tiny desert town of Searchlight, Nevada. I end up in Searchlight when my GPS goes awry. It’s almost noon Saturday late…
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Lucy Lee Go Lightly
Originally posted on Along the Way: I was a reluctant grandmother. To be a grandparent was not something I resisted but life was good, full with friends and personal interests. Forgotten was all that baby, little kid stuff, cloth books and rattle toys. On the day though that Lucy Lee happened, life became rich and…
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Finding Zen In Searchlight: A Haibun
The tracks of Highway 95 are laid down along the Mojave and run north and south between Las Vegas and Laughlin. About mid-way the highway comes to the tiny desert town of Searchlight, Nevada. I end up in Searchlight when my GPS goes awry. It’s almost noon Saturday late Spring. Pulling into Terrible’s Casino with…
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The Real Juice On The California Wine Trail
The glistening ocean breaks against the rocks as Highway 101 reveals Santa Barbara with its white stucco bungalows and terra cotta-tiled roof tops. Just north the landscape opens wide to find ochre-colored hillsides covered in grape vines in every hue of green and purple. The California wine trail is long and like a giant Sequoia,…
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In love with #Berlin
We begin the day at the Polish flea market in the Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate where huge pieces of the Wall remain. For the moment my love of crystal takes over and I’m absorbed looking at the exquisite pieces I find laid out on the peddler’s blanket. I choose a delicately etched water pitcher…
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August: Osage County — Not Far from Home
Originally posted on Along the Way: When I heard Tracy Letts was developing his Pulitzer prize-winning play August: Osage County for the big screen, I was thrilled. I saw August: Osage County when it played on the LA stage. “All roads lead to home.” I could see the country, the sweeping prairie, the old…
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On the California Wine Trail
Find my latest publication “On the California Wine Trail” at http//www.neauxmad.com where I write about a recent trip to rediscover 4 historic wineries in Napa Valley that I first visited in the ’70s before the blind tasting in Paris. Cheers!
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