“Be wary of stuff. Be careful what you purchase, what you save, what you pack into plastic storage boxes. Stuff can hog-tie your life.” …
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“Be wary of stuff. Be careful what you purchase, what you save, what you pack into plastic storage boxes. Stuff can hog-tie your life.” …
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ART Exhibits, House-sitting, Local Color, PHOTO ESSAYS, TRAVEL
I’ve encountered nothing but kindness and charm in Albuquerque, NM, and I’ve been housesitting in this city for three months already. Here in Albuquerque's North Valley where I temporarily live, …
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I’ve been housesitting in Boulder less than a week, and happily I've found a walking trail that fits my three-mile round-trip requirement. Goose Creek Greenway, a stream with a winding path beside it, …
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House-sitting, Local Color, PHOTO ESSAYS, Reflections & Questions, TRAVEL
“Do you need someone to be the corpse?” I asked the Care-of-the-Body team instructor. “Because if you do, I’ll volunteer. I’d like to doze a bit.” That was hardly an exalted motive, I admit, but it …
It was inspired choice—spending July 4, 2016, morning walking the canals of Venice CA with an old friend (as I'm housesitting in LA for a bit). Residents were out, spreading red-white-blue picnic …
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House-sitting, Local Color, PHOTO ESSAYS, Road Trips, TRAVEL
“So,” I said to a Crestone local, opening the French doors and stepping out to the porch where she stood, hose in hand, watering the flowers around the house where I’m house-sitting, “how long have …
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