By Artur Ciesielski | Essay
This is a Facebook post written by Joanna on her timeline. I wanted to have it here as well. Today is 10 years since we drove two days to Memphis to get our dog Maya. Today is one month since she died. This year her mom Callie and her uncle Carter also died, so they […]
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When riding in the Phoenix Mountain, near my home, I tend to not event take a water bottle and not tools. I like to ride with minimal stuff. It’s no different when I go trail running. Of course, I can walk the few miles home if I have to, so the risk is small. On […]
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This IS such a beautiful time of year. The tangerines are ready to eat, the oranges and grapefruit is just a few weeks from being perfectly sweet and juice. The roses are blooming and the lavender is swaying in the light nippy breeze. It’s Thanksgiving day. Traffic is light and it’s nice and quiet, but […]
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Here are the relations from the two weeks of my trip to Peru, beginning with a few days in Lima then into the more formal, or not – let’s hope not, mountain biking tour. It’s ongoing until it ends, so it’s all a rough draft until it ends, unless I don’t update this part when it […]
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Where ever I walk around the neighborhood and sometimes a bit further I see little Rudys and sometimes not so little Rudys. He has kids everywhere: he’s been multiplying for years and seems to good at it, pushing fate and danger aside. Rudy is getting up there in age. His body shows evidence of many […]
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It’s been a while since I sat around, lingering, listening, working a bit or not, at a coffee shop. When setting up an appointment to meet someone, on a whim, I set it up at a coffee shop – Royal Coffee at the Biltmore. The weather is perfect for sitting outside. Cute light fluffy clouds […]
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This morning during a visit to Ace Hardware at a husky guy and a girl parked to my left in a nice, well maintained, middle class car. It was a parking space near the front door, it was open, an obvious place to park – closest to the store. I got two keys made and […]
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The following makes no sense at all. I’m not sure I understand it. Sometimes I get an idea to write about something, I jot down some notes, quick successions of thoughts and save the thing as a draft. Days, Weeks, Months, Years later I look through my draft posts. Most often I can’t remember why […]
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As a preface, let me state that I was a full time Realtor for about 13 years. Although I still am a Realtor, I don’t need to be and my professions have changed somewhat. I’m still in the real estate business, but I’m more selective about the clients I take on. I guess that is […]
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Continuing the neighborhood projects I decided to take on Dream Draw this Friday and ended up having to call for a ride home. More on that later. Dreamy Draw has an interesting history. There is a reason it’s called dreamy and it has nothing to do with those beautiful views – rather it’s a toxic […]
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While doing some landscaping, trimming back the deluge of flora and flowers this season I came upon an 18″ tall Chinese Elm that came up from a seed, a seed that, probably, came from this tree. I planted this tree about 3 years ago. It has come to grow into a beautiful lush tree. It’s […]
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Have you heard the term sunken cost? These are costs which are lost whether you like it or not. It can be more than financial cost. Emotional costs are equally expensive and can easily hamper progress. When I started Phoenix Market Trends in 2007 it was a simple blog on an obscure platform, but it worked […]
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