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The fire was pressing closer. The woods were teeming with animal life in a frantic attempt to escape the flames and suffocating smoke. Ground squirrels, mice, chipmunks scurried across the floor, and deer crashed through the underbrush. Wolf could run beside fawn in this race, because only one thing mattered: flee. Everyone obeyed their self-preservation instinct. Except…
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I have never been able to touch my toes, well, or even come close. Maybe I could when I was a gumby baby like most are in the early months of life. But after that … not a chance. My hip flexers and hamstrings are REAAAAALY tight. They have been for as long as I can remember,…
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I discovered a new jogging path the other day in the “woods” of Fullerton. What this really means is that if you squint your eyes, don’t look to the right or the left, and play nature sounds on your iPod you can almost imagine you have left suburbia. Even so, it beats running on the…
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Letter from Mary’s neighbor to her sister Have I got news!! You know my neighbor Mary, the one you met at my dinner party last spring? Well, she got engaged to Joseph a few months back and they are due to be married soon. But that’s not the news. Can you believe she’s pregnant? Yes! …
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Welcome to the Beyond the Horizon blog! Some of you may have been here before, back when the last blog entry was in July … well, I have decided it’s time to change that. I’d like to use this as a way to share some ideas and tools, and discuss some fun new topics as…