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Some number of years ago, I was having lunch with a friend, a woman I’d met in the tenacious and sometimes duplicitous trenches of the school PTO board. Our youngest children are the same age, and we were both heading into the final bend of that seemingly endless, curving road we’d been traveling. We couldContinueContinue reading “Hatching Dreams from an Empty Nest”

The story of Arcadia’s newest (and smallest) gated community “You can see why the people hated them so much,” quipped my teenage daughter as we approached the gates of Versailles. It was, indeed, an unsettling sight. Gold-plated gaudiness stretching as far as the eye could see, luminous even under a heavy cloud cover and aContinueContinue reading “Life Behind Bars”

Why is it so hard to start something new? I’ve been in the process of starting a business since the spring of 2016. I started working on my website in January 2017, and today, 18 months later, I am writing my first blog post. That might not seem like a big deal, except I’m aContinueContinue reading “Begin the Begin”