Random thoughts from the sea
Day 174, Staying at Home Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico This week it wasn’t smoke but snow that drove me inside for my morning coffee routine. I awoke Tuesday to discover a light snowfall clinging to the shrubs, sage bushes and trees in the arroyo. I ventured
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Day 169, Staying at Home Monday, Sept. 7, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico When I pictured myself in Santa Fe, I envisioned following in the footsteps of Georgia O’Keeffe. I would hike into the southwest desert landscape, set up my easel, sit on my stool and spend my days painting.
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Day 160, Staying at Home Saturday, August 29, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico After almost two months of leisurely mornings on the patio, watching the sunrise creep across the arroyo, I’ve retreated indoors. When I open the slider door, a whiff of smoky air greets me. If I stay long,
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Day 145, Staying at Home Friday, August 14, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico “Can you believe we get to live here?” My next-door neighbor was driving us to meet her friend for wine and tapas and stopped to exclaim as she crested a hill near our condos in Santa Fe.
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Day 134, Staying at Home Monday, August 3, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico Why come to Santa Fe for a pandemic summer? No Opera, no Indian Market. The museums are all closed – even the outdoor botanical garden (which doesn’t make much sense to me). Galleries and retail shops around
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Day 126, Staying at Home Sunday, July 26, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico When we abruptly left the ship last March, I don’t think any of us imagined that we would never again sail on Holland America’s MS Amsterdam. Sure, it would be a while before we would cruise again,
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Day 125, Staying at Home Saturday, July 25, 2020; Santa Fe, New Mexico Shanghai! South Africa! Hong Kong! Jakarta! South Korea! Vietnam! Manila! Even if I can’t have travel adventures during this pandemic, at least my luggage has gotten out and about. I must say I am a bit jealous.
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Day 79, Staying at Home Wednesday, June 10, 2020; Hot Springs, Arkansas (I recently decamped to Santa Fe for a few months, where I’m still in quarantine. Before I start writing about this new adventure I’m finishing up posts about my weeks in Arkansas.) The great thing about being in
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Day 96, Staying at Home Saturday, June 28, 2020; Fort Smith, Arkansas Once you get off the interstates to cross this country, you drive through hundreds of small downtowns. Sadly, many of them feel neglected. Big box stores have drawn shoppers out of downtowns to strip malls and larger towns
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Day 95, Staying at Home Friday, June 26, 2020; Fort Smith, Arkansas With no home of my own (remember, my plan for two years was to live mostly on cruise ships), I retreated to my sister Eloise’s home in Fort Smith in mid May. Fort Smith is the second largest
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