NOT KEEPING SCORE

Despite being on the road, I’m still NaNo-ing! I’ve made my way back to Taos, New Mexico, sagebrush of my heart, and am snuggling down into 7 (burrr!) degree nights, the cold air like a blanket of quiet.
Good thing I’m being well taken care of; some friends I met last time have put me up, […]

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Can too much beauty be detrimental to one’s health? There is a deafening quality to Taos — the sky’s explosion so loud it turns to a smiling quiet.
“Taos mountain either takes you in or spits you out,” the locals say. The mountain, it feels, has taken me into its bosom.  But like a soul mate […]

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Stuck, already, at the car rental.

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My other love affair: New Mexico. Heading back to the land of 4D skies, horizon-tall sagebrush, and dirt the color of blood… or perhaps it’s my blood the color of that dirt…
(Ye-Ha!)

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I thought it would be fun.
A 6-day getaway to laid-back, green&lush Seattle. Hang with The Girls. Get a little crazy.
In SF, my “color girls” (3 friends I’ve known since about 6 years old) wouldn’t stop until the whole town was painted red, red, red. Only thing is, suddenly I’m… old[er]. And definitely, certainly, unquestionably un-hip.

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Not known for her camerawork, your humble author still manages to capture a moment of what makes Turkey so spellbinding.

(Blue Mosque)

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I am sitting in a hostel cum internet cafe, on the terrace over-looking Istanbul’s Bosphorus. I am drinking a small hourglass-shaped glass of Turkish tea, no sugar, as the air turns fuzzy with dusk. I am over-hearing snippets of hip, young, international travelers with tattoos and square thick-rimmed glasses and white cardigans, and beer. They […]

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Suddenly, in Turkey–merhaba!
(That happens sometimes; I wake up, and — I’m in Istanbul! Holy kefta!) As I travel around the country getting my Turkish on, expect posts and stories soon… Inshallah.
(Or in three weeks. As internet is available.)
~Shannon

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This post is so you can experience the piano player in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico… it also gives me a chance to check out Google Video (Beta) for my next series of posts: More Web 2.0h My Goodness

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The Land of Enchantment: Part 3
Most of what I like about New Mexico is it’s yawning expanses, and it’s “Old West” feel. It is just such another world from Northern California.

Especially in Las Vegas, where clearly not much has changed in many years — I like it that way.
There is some progressive spirit here, though. […]

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