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    Thanksgiving Eve, Sonoma Coast

    November 23, 2017 Posted in Odds & Ends, Photography 4 comments

     

    Easy breezy bird play

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    Sandpiper Happy Hour

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    Crabbin’

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    Going, going, almost gone…

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    The True “Twilight Zone”

    August 30, 2013 Posted in General Nonfiction, Odds & Ends 4 comments

    When I was 9 or 10 years old, my brother landed a paper route, distributing the Eagle Rock Sentinel on Thursday and Sunday mornings. It meant getting up at 5 a.m., walking six or seven blocks to the drop-off point, bagging up papers on the street corner in the dark, then hoofing it up and down a hillside neighborhood for a couple of hours, dropping a paper as near to every porch as possible (especially those whose owners were known to tip an extra dime on top of the 40-cent monthly fee).

    Pete was three years older and already showing the entrepreneurial bent that would lead him to a long career as a partner in an accounting firm. So he hired me to help deliver the papers, scoring me my own bag so we could walk up both sides of each block and thus cut the delivery time in half.

    He paid me the princely sum of a dollar for each such outing, eight dollars a month...

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