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Onward | Hacienda Hotel Update

It’s a remarkable transformation of the 1920’s historic boutique hotel that’s not quite finished yet but “getting there” – a sign of the times with pandemic and war-time supply chain issues that have been plaguing the construction industry. […]

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ONWARD | On Mother’s Day – Celebrating the Nurturers

A nod to those who step in to care when they don’t have to. People who have no familial genes in the game but got it right when others didn’t – or couldn’t. People who become a better part of your upbringing in that whole, “takes a village” kind of way. […]

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ONWARD | Going down the road feeling a whole lot of things

Somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee, and New Port Richey, Florida the old man and I are going down the road feeling a whole lot of things while listening to an old bootleg copy of a Grateful Dead concert we attended in 1979 when we were young and new and kind of carefree. […]

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ONWARD | In it for the long haul….again

“You picked a good time to get out of Florida,” is an oft-repeated sentiment when I call to check in on the housesitter, friends and family members who are hunkering down in their homes again, or while conducting telephone interviews for an upcoming feature story I’m working on. […]

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ONWARD | Those were the Days

Some stories were told so frequently that after awhile you felt like the memories were yours as they spilled out over coffee and pilsners of beer, threaded with laughter, tears, some angry thoughts, and “those were the days” laments. […]

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ONWARD | Piano Move(s)

Like pioneers contemplating what to dump from their weighed-down covered wagons at a treacherous crossroad, we were standing in the front yard of our New England home, making some hard, last-minute decisions about what we could live without. […]