Author name: judyann dutcher

Our View Gardens

We get our weekly CSA share from Fairview Gardens. When the kids were ooohing over the strawberries I brought home, I told them to go harvest thier own strawberries in “OurView Gardens.” They liked that.

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(M)ad Men

I was a late adopter to the hit AMC series Mad Men. It had already had 2 sets of Emmys before I started watching the the acclaimed show. I heard so much gushing over the premise, the intrigue, the characters and Don, that I finally started tuning in on Sunday nights in season 3. Why

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Don’t Think

There are two versions of morning in Santa Barbara. One is bright and sunny making flower petals glow and grass shimmer. The other kind of morning is gray fog that often sits over the coast until as late as 4 p.m. When you exercise outside, you can not allow this dichotomy dictate your opinion about

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Sheep Projector

Driving Son and his classmate to school this morning, Son was describing what needed to be done to finish his Eagle Scout Requirements: Dad is going to get some sheet protectors.” We asked him to repeat what he said. Although he said the same thing, what we heard was: Dad is going to get some

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Illuminated

My book club chose “Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer for this month’s adventure. I wasn’t a fan of the movie but it was probably because I couldn’t get Elijah Wood out of the character of Frodo. I usually like WWII tales so I was surprised that I wasn’t taken by the movie. But

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