- November 15th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
When reminders about the end of daylight savings time began to crop up last month, the usual congenial grumping began. Some people wished it never would end. Others expressed hope the practic…
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- November 11th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
As November 15 approaches, we’re nearly halfway through National Novel Writing Month. I’d never heard of the event (NaNoWriMo to the cognoscenti) until it was mentioned by Becca, of Wri…
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- November 8th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Back in the late 70’s, I spent a year scratching out a living in the Oakland Flats, drinking Anchor Steam and drinking in Tower of Power and the Staples Singers at the Coliseum. Now and then I…
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- November 6th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
This election night, as I watched MSNBC’s television coverage, followed a few liberals around battleground states on Twitter and read through an assortment of conservative blogs, I beg…
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- October 31st, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
When I began posting on WordPress in April, friends from another site held a blog-warming. There were virtual covered dishes, cyber-cinnamon rolls and coffee, a bottle of wine.  It was charmin…
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- October 25th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Most people who live near the Gulf of Mexico, or in Florida, or along the coast of the Southeastern US understand they’re at risk for hurricanes.  When one finally appears that’s…
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- October 24th, 2008
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shoreacres has added
JackMandora to her friends list.
- October 22nd, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Truly good advice rarely comes accompanied by trumpets and tympani. It doesn’t light up the sky with neon colors, or advertise itself like a hot new product with a crack marketing team. Truly…
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- October 16th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
I love questions that feel like a game of “let’s pretend”, and the question Becca asked at Write on Wednesday made me eager to play. “What would you do,” she asked, …
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- October 14th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Sometimes, we don’t have a choice about whom we entertain. I don’t remember making a call and I surely didn’t send out invitations, but suddenly a new problem has come to visit. …
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- October 11th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Whether you’ve been day sailing in Galveston Bay or managed an offshore jaunt to another Texas port, everyone has to come home. Tacking or reaching through the Gulf, moored buoys mark the shippi…
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- October 5th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
I’ve been drinking Red Cloud’s Finest, an organic Antigua Guatemalan coffee distributed by EL LAGO Coffee Company, since a friend gave me a pound of beans as a gift. It tastes as good…
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- October 2nd, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
The first sentence of this week’s Write on Wednesday prompt stopped me as surely as an unexpected storm surge: “Earlier tonight I was tearing around the kitchen in my usual mad dash to get…
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- September 25th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
In Starting Over, Simply, I spoke of my evacuation for Hurricane Ike and my increasing eagerness to end that evacuation, returning home to confront the realities of a post-hurricane world. As I said,…
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- September 24th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
When Hurricane Ike blew through my neighborhood (and he did, quite literally - the eye went over my house), he swept away much of the area’s history. The TopWater Grill in San Leon is gone, …
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- September 4th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Sociologists may enjoy debating whether we’ve become “just numbers”, but it’s impossible to avoid numbers in our lives. Everyone has numbers that are important to them. We…
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- August 29th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
During my first year of college, before I came to terms with the fact that I had neither the desire nor the drive to continue as a music major, I spent a good portion of my life in practice boot…
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- August 23rd, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
If you need a poster child for the dog days of summer, Jake would do just fine. Jake lives on a boat next to my current varnish project, and it’s clear that he hates August. He doesn’t l…
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- August 20th, 2008
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shoreacres has added
dreammer to her friends list.
- August 19th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Sailing to Havana On the Texas coast, easterlies mean rain,  but southeast winds whisper tropical promises.  Building in like the trades, they rise after noon to blow every hint of land - burnin…
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- August 14th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
I was young, well-traveled but still impressionable when I moved to Berkeley in the late 70s. In many ways my years there were the best of my life. Afternoons, I lingered for hours at Caffe Espres…
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- August 11th, 2008
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shoreacres has added
GeoffreysPlace to her friends list.
- August 10th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
All of us make mistakes. I’ve made a few (thousand) in my life, and continue to make them on a daily basis. Some are inconsequential, like typographical errors in my blog or miscalculating th…
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- August 7th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Clear Creek stitches its way through the fabric of my world, drawing together water and sky, grasses and trees into patterns of exquisite beauty.  Pulled through the marshy flood plain toward C…
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- August 1st, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
Long before I had seen a palm tree, years before I fell in love with watery azure, turquoise and lapis ribbons twined around Caribbean islands, lifetimes before I walked through tangles of bougainvill…
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- July 27th, 2008
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shoreacres has posted a new entry on: The Task at Hand
My earliest memories of my parents’ car aren’t of the car as a whole.  I haven’t a clue what the make, model or color might have been, but I can describe the back seat perfec…
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