42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

Worst. Service. Ever.
One act.
The players:
Three young yet fairly funky professionals looking for food and a drink after work, in one of the few restaurants still serving food after midnight, in a cool, funky part of town.
Heather: don’t get her riled
Sarah of the Sun: really don’t get her riled
Mel B.: all she wants is curry without [...]

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Smells trigger memories. Smells can be elusive. I can’t describe the smells, the smells of beauty, of clean air, of nature on the coast in the Big Sur region of California.  I wish I could, so I could paint a word picture for you. So you could come with me on the trip to the [...]

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I saw the heavy dark clouds blotting out the normally sunny but smoggy sky yesterday and thought if this was Michigan, it surely would rain. But it never rains in Fresno during the summer.
Temps reached 108 this week. I don’t get sympathy from my midwestern compatriots because with the humidity, it feels almost that hot at [...]

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For a few years, I’ve collected loose change of mine, and when it gets to critical mass, it’s time to take the change in.
I used to take pleasure in rolling my coins, counting them out, and of course, finding pleasant surprises such as wheat pennies or foreign change.
That’s before the evil invention of the coin [...]

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I have a handful of posts cooking. May not come to fruition. May be a cooking mass that I would eat, but wouldn’t serve to others.
So instead I’ll just share briefly about how wonderful it is to have access to a pool in near 100-degree temperatures.
How my mind can just float away with my body, [...]

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