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Angela's Back Pages: My Quest for a Second Soul
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Thursday, January 24, 2013. My Quest for a Second Soul. To have another language is to possess a second soul. I’m trying to learn Spanish. Let me rephrase that: I’m learning Spanish. I’m banishing negative self talk about it like, “I’m way too old to learn a whole new language,” and (imagine a whiny voice). 8220;This is hard.”. And in general I developed an ear for what Mexican Spanish should sound like. Which ...
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Angela's Back Pages: The Wedding: Part Two
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The Wedding: Part Two. Well, it was just lovely. The bride looked stunning (but then she was a slender little 18-year-old so why wouldn't she? Bride and her father arriving at the church. The bride and groom with her brothers and sister. After everyone had had their turn, they began drifting out of the church. And that's when the fun began. Mariachi's, in their best wedding whites, were...
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Angela's Back Pages: Of Elevens and Pennies
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Saturday, January 12, 2013. Of Elevens and Pennies. My birthday falls on the 29. I also was vaguely aware that there was something called the 11:11 phenomenon. People all over the world claimed that they saw this number with unusual frequency. I thought it sounded a bit silly, but truth be known, since I regarded 11 as my personal number I was mildly miffed that I was not privy to this. There’s no point i...
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Angela's Back Pages: September 2011
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Friday, September 30, 2011. My bathroom re-do is well underway. The guys are working really hard and doing a beautiful job. Then yesterday at 6 pm as they were finishing for the day, they told me they had run out of tile. 168;How can that be? I asked. ¨I bought the amount you said you needed.¨. 168;Yes but we thought you were getting bigger tiles. These tiles are chico,. 168; they replied. Regular readers will ...
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Angela's Back Pages: January 2013
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Thursday, January 24, 2013. My Quest for a Second Soul. To have another language is to possess a second soul. I’m trying to learn Spanish. Let me rephrase that: I’m learning Spanish. I’m banishing negative self talk about it like, “I’m way too old to learn a whole new language,” and (imagine a whiny voice). 8220;This is hard.”. And in general I developed an ear for what Mexican Spanish should sound like. Which ...
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Angela's Back Pages: The Wedding: Part One
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Saturday, May 18, 2013. The Wedding: Part One. I've never totally understood the cult of weddings. According to this survey. The average cost of a wedding in the U.S. in 2012 was $28, 427! Here's the thing about that: the bride is always the most beautiful woman in the room regardless of what she wears. I'd be shocked if anyone actually noticed the specific pin tucks or the precise placement of the spangles.
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Angela's Back Pages: A Well-Traveled Book
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Wednesday, February 20, 2013. The year I turned 40, I decided to celebrate/ignore/escape/memorialize my birthday by travelling through Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. As I was about to leave Los Angeles on this epic four-month adventure, a friend handed me a book for the plane. It was an already well-thumbed copy of Lonesome Dove. By Larry McMurtry; and it was a must-read, my friend insisted. On board the ferry...
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Angela's Back Pages: October 2011
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Friday, October 28, 2011. My Desert Island Discs. Since I don’t have television here in Mineral de Pozos. I rely almost entirely on the internet for entertainment. I can access US television shows online the day after they’ve aired so don’t have to miss The Good Wife. My prized possession as a teenager was the transistor radio I got for my 15. The transistor radio, big curlers, cool shades, and bellbottoms.
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Angela's Back Pages: June 2011
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Thursday, June 9, 2011. The Best Laid Plans …. So, yes, I do remember that when I sold my 80-year-old house in Los Angeles a few years ago, I went all Scarlett O’Hara and raised my fist to the sky declaring, “As God is my witness, I’ll never buy an old house again.”. You tell 'em, girl. I have total recall of how exhilarated I felt when I got rid of most of what I owned. Just in case you think I'm. Why, I’...
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Angela's Back Pages: March 2013
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8220;Ah, but I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now.” - My Back Pages, Bob Dylan. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Las Golondrinas of Mineral de Pozos. It's been a topic of concern around our little pueblo: Where are the swallows? Each year that I've been here, the barn swallows. Known by the far prettier name of las golondrinas. Finishing up work on the new nest last year. With all the dire stories in the news about how the monarch butterfly. I even had golondrinas on my birthday cake. I dashed out...
