Category Archives: Friends

Spotlight On: Creative Ink Festival

Posted on March 29, 2016 by clubfredbaja

In the spring of 2015, the Creative Ink Festival held a one-day, “sneak peek” event, to give local readers, writers, and artists a taste of what to expect in 2016. Well, the main event is almost here and I am … Continue reading →

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Hang Onto Me

Posted on March 26, 2016 by clubfredbaja

Take a good look at the woman in the picture above. She looks happy, doesn’t she? I mean, who wouldn’t be happy in their own private pool, in the sun, with the person they love most in the world, in … Continue reading →

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AWKWARD

Posted on March 1, 2016 by clubfredbaja

In Madame Porges French class, in Burnsview Jr. High, I once eavesdropped on a conversation about The Who. The conversation was not conducted en français, as it really should have been, but the participants were two of the cool kids … Continue reading →

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Our Story

Posted on February 16, 2016 by clubfredbaja

My swirling thoughts have been swirly-er than usual lately. Traveling through the lands to the south of my lovely-yet-frigid homeland always puts me in the path of people with different—sometimes wildly different—perspectives and views than mine. For all our similarities, … Continue reading →

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Yes, I Have a Problem

Posted on January 4, 2016 by clubfredbaja

At 3am in Las Vegas, vomiting Asian Lettuce Wraps and Don Julio tequila into a hotel bathrobe, four words came through my drunken fog loud and clear: I need to stop. Four little words that I recognized, even in the … Continue reading →

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Me and the Great Big Ocean

Posted on December 31, 2015 by clubfredbaja

Another New Year’s Eve approaches. Another, likely futile, attempt on my part to stay up until midnight. This year Prez and I are in the same place, with the same people, as the year before. Nothing has changed and everything … Continue reading →

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Here and There

Posted on November 16, 2015 by clubfredbaja

Unlike some other adoptees, who grew up under a cloud of abandonment issues, my “rootless” status always left me with a feeling of absolute possibility.  My borders were not defined. I did not look at my parents and see my … Continue reading →

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Not Alone

Posted on November 9, 2015 by clubfredbaja

  “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…” ~ John Donne, Meditation 17, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions When I lived in Costa Rica, ants were among … Continue reading →

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A Short Rant About This Thing That Makes Me Want To Scream

Posted on November 4, 2015 by clubfredbaja

Have you seen this little “gem” floating around social media? If you’re a woman, did it make you feel better about yourself? Did you read this and think, “See, all these little flaws are okay because I’m a woman and … Continue reading →

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Friends Like These

Posted on October 6, 2015 by clubfredbaja

Imagine you are going to throw a party. You make a list of fifty of your friends. You send out invitations to those fifty friends. How many do you reasonably expect will RSVP with a Yes? How many Maybes? How … Continue reading →

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