Delora in España

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

A quick trip to Vietnam

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Delora's sister, an award-winning film and television director, recommended that Delora try a new iphone app called Histamatic.  She tho...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The Ashram - Day whateva'

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Dinner at the Ashram Delora ia truly hungry  starving from the time she rises, at 5am, until she falls, face first, into bed at 9pm.  She ...
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Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Ashram - Day 1

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Delora and friends arrive at the Ashram, a beautiful house rented from Richard Branson's ex-wife, near the port of Soller (in Mallorca) ...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Delora blogs again ... from the Ashram

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Delora decides to overcome 9 months of excessive jamon intake and negate her recently acquired bad Spanish habits by spending one week at t...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Genius or Junk?

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There were times, during Delora's recent visit to the Marqués de Riscal Winery in the Rioja region of Spain, when she thought that the i...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Delora's Communicative Family

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 coutesy of: This isn't Happiness blog Delora has a very large and complicated immediate family.  First, there was Delora, her sister ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Delora's Brain Malfunction

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Multiple Shadow House photo by Olafur Eliasson Delora discovers a seriously, serious problem with her brain function while driving with fri...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Delora Lapses Into Semi-retirement

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Delora's scoops another handful of Iberian jamon (de bellota) into her pie-hole, and glances lazily at her computer screen. There it i...
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Learning Manners From The Spaniards

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Unlike those from a bordering country (rhymes with " pants "),  the Spanish always make you feel as though you've made their...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ode to Jamon (Ham)

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Pata Negra: Translation? Black pig ham legs (and lots of 'em) When Delora lived in the States, she thought ham was beneath her.  She re...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Delora's Medical Condition

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Delora is deciding whether to use the best Spanish surgeon or the best English-speaking Spanish surgeon for her abdominal hernia. She looks ...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

The Final Report

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Sometimes when Delora listens to people talking fast in Spanish she is like the animal in the Far Side comic picking out a few select word...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Thunder's Cost Justification Analysis

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Delora thinks back to her salad days in New York City selling computers at IBM.  She remembers spending months of rigorous training at IBM s...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Boarding School Conference Call

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SON 1: Why do we have to have another conference call when they've already interviewed us once? DELORA:  They want to see how you'...
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Friday, February 5, 2010

Finca Fantasy: Part dos

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Darn if that Finca inviation didn't evaporate when the margaritas wore off!  To read about how Delora and her husband were lured into ...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

From Pet Psychic to Pet Detective...

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If you thought we were crazy to listen to two pet psychics, what will you think of our hiring a pet detective?  I  justify our decision by p...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Why Can´t Delora Be Tranquila?

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As she stands in the lift line in the Sierra Nevadas on the best ski day of the season, Delora can´t help but feel dissatisfied that she ha...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Flamenco Sisters

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It seems that genuine flamenco attire from España brings out the tiny dancer in all of us!  Behold my beautiful nieces:
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ANOTHER Pet Psychic weighs in...

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This pet psychic is Chip's sister's friend.  She's based in NY: Thunder is east/northeast from the last place where he was...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Exploring My Inner Heroes

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[Spoiler alert:  If you have not watched HEROES Season 1 yet (fool), you may want to wait to read this riveting post...] When you live ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Day 25...

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You all have been so great about checking on Thunder's whereabouts...and I wanted, so badly, to have a happy ending to the story of our ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Note to Admissions...

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Besides having a lost dog and rotten karma, we are living through one of the worst trials ever to test our resilience on the face of this pl...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Look Up Thunder!

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If you're going for a walk in the evening, you'll notice that there are different Christmas lights strung across many of the streets...
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I'm a mother of triplets, who thought moving to Spain to learn the language and fulfill my dreams of living abroad would be a whole lot easier.
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