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Dark matters
Posted on November 11, 2016 20 Comments
What irony. My last post was on the sunny, warm, glowing happiness that comes with San Diego and its Great Ball of Fire, that spreads over the landscape virtually every day of the year. Then I came back up to our main house in Valencia and a week of welcomed rain and cold, with dark […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Green is good
Posted on September 27, 2013 5 Comments
Years back I lived abroad for one summer. While I was there, with quite a few machinations and pulling of strings, I was able to rent an apartment all on my own (I was 19). As a foreigner, the number one feature when choosing an apartment was whether it already had a phone. This was […]
Beth Byrnes 
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