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How to Achieve Mindfulness (without really trying)

July 11, 2010

Apparently, “mindfulness” has nothing to do with one’s brain being full. Given my penchant for large words and a relative lack of functioning brain cells, my mind gets full rather quickly. If I turn a couple pages in a thesaurus I’ve got to lie down for half an hour. Due to the failings of my [...]

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7 things Sonoma has in common with a unicorn

June 24, 2010

Because I’ve apparently relinquished all private information about myself to the faceless confessional of Facebook’s privacy policy, the social network can ascertain with relative certainty what sort of online advertising might appeal to me. Me being someone identified as a 25-to-40-year-old, married media professional who lives in Sonoma, California, born under the sign of Cancer, [...]

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How to Get Lost in Sonoma

June 22, 2010

There are few invitations to adventure more alluring than a diamond-shaped orange road-sign inscribed in sans-serif font. For us workaday chaps, for whom the morning commute represents the pinnacle of one’s quotidian exposure to danger and intrigue, it hardly matters what’s written on the sign. Of course, “Falling Rocks,” has a little more implicit danger [...]

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F’queu: The Art of Waiting in Line in Sonoma

June 11, 2010

It used to be Napa and Marin — counties historically assailed for propagating cultures of entitlement, privilege and general snobbery — that bred expectations of social superiority among the chattering classes. Turns out, there’s a homemade breed which, to the awesome chagrin of a score of patrons at El Dorado Kitchenette one recent morning, made [...]

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