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AUGUST 24
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[Life Back West] August 2009 - How I (and the Millennials) Spent Summer Vacation
There are ways to mark time as well as waste it. Camp Mather is neither. Instead it’s a low-frills family camp where I spent last week on vacation with my seven year old son. It is a place for San Francisco families to affirm the milestones that...
 
JULY 28
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[Life Back West] July 2009 – The Road Trip
Life today seems to move ever so quickly. Though it’s likely an observation shared by people throughout the centuries, our Twitter / 24 by 7 news cycle lives seem to almost eliminate the time to pause, to think, and to talk deeply. It seems true...
 
MAY 27
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[Life Back West] May 2009 – The Ties that Bind
This Sunday approximately 3,500 people, many of them strangers, will hop on their bicycles or take up their ride support stations and start a 545 journey that will last seven days from San Francisco to Los Angeles for AIDS LifeCycle 8 . It’s the...
 
APRIL 23
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[Life Back West] April 2009 - The Hummingbirds Return
As I suspect it’s been for a number of other people, the last 12 months have been choppy, marked by some high highs and low lows and any number of very bumpy bumps – economic and otherwise – in between. Paradoxically, those lows in our...
 
MARCH 19
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[Life Back West] March 2009 - The Value of Experience
A little experience goes a ways, and a lot of experience goes even further. It may not mean you know the answers to the future, but it provides a data set that is significantly greater than those who are newly initiated. I remember Todd Wanerman from...
 
FEBRUARY 19
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[Life Back West] February 2009 - "What I Learned at School Today"
I am no speechwriter nor am I a speech analyst: I stick to my knitting coaching teams and execs. But a “lite” version of an exercise I utilize I call “Road Trip” was one of the things my son learned at school Tuesday, January 20th...
 
JANUARY 12
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[Life Back West] January 2009 - "Big Feelings"
Some people easily communicate emotions. I am not naturally one of them; a close friend told me that they knew when I got enthused about something when they saw one of my eyebrows move. It is the mischief of karma that I am blessed with a son who has a...
 
 




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