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Ox tale soap
Posted on April 15, 2016 27 Comments
On April 1 I saw this headline in our local rag sheet. As is often the case, it dovetailed perfectly with the post that had been swirling in my head for today. If you only knew Stepford-like Santa Clarita, you would be rolling in the, well, wherever you are and could be rolling around, doubled […]
No woman is an island
Posted on March 18, 2016 20 Comments
Well, here I go again, apologizing. I meant to be more active on WP this last two weeks but the project got in the way. I am wrapping it up this week, so I should be back to normal shortly. I don’t intend to be absent, I have just been overwhelmed. There isn’t much new to report. […]
All that glitters is not cold
Posted on December 20, 2015 21 Comments
This is the frantic time of year for us. Geoffrey is always slammed with huge projects and crazy deadlines and I have to turn away job after job. I thought I had everything under control because we bought all our gifts early and sent off the ones that needed to be delivered, the rest being […]
Agrivation
Posted on March 9, 2014 21 Comments
I have been working all week on an intense project and ideas for this particular topic have been swirling through my head. Sometimes they gel into a cogent statement, buttressed by facts from all the sources that spin past me each day and at other times, they just drop into the pool of ideas that […]
The Haunt of Red October
Posted on October 7, 2013 33 Comments
It’s finally October, a time of year most of us in the Northern Hemisphere look forward to for its cool, crisp fall days, the turning leaves, familiar signs of harvest. I do too. But for us here in our Southern California idyll, October comes with trepidation. This week it has been as hot here as […]
Beth Byrnes 
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