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A day in the Castro

February 17, 2015 By Carol Cassara 19 Comments

There's no place like The Castro (district) in San Francisco, not even Greenwich Village (which is hallowed ground, thanks to the 1969 Stonewall riots that began the rebellion against repression and police raids against gays. Honestly, it boggles my mind that police were concerned about gay men's . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Trippin' Tagged With: Blog, California, San Francisco, United States

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

January 25, 2015 By Carol Cassara 9 Comments

You've heard the expression, right? You probably didn't know its title, which is To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Virgin or not, everyone can appreciate the reminder to seize the day, to live in the moment, to do all we can while we can. And boy, does that take on new meaning after . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Trippin' Tagged With: Blog, United States

Going back in time

May 14, 2014 By Carol Cassara 31 Comments

There was once a day when we knew the model and make of every car on the road. Including this iconic finned Cadillac Coup de Ville that we spied while out on errands a few days ago.  Is it a 1960? The fins are a clue that it could be. More than 50 years old--whoa! My husband always compares these . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Trippin' Tagged With: Blog, Entertainment, New York, Retro Fashion, Rochester, Rochester New York, Television, United States

Alcatraz: mystical, mysterious, must-see

March 29, 2014 By Carol Cassara 19 Comments

Alcatraz is a mystical place for me. That big rock sitting out in the middle of San Francisco Bay, sometimes glinting in sunshine and other times cloaked in fog. Where convicted criminals were housed in cold, bare cells and isolated from the world. It's said that at night they could hear the music . . .

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Filed Under: Trippin' Tagged With: California, San Francisco, United States

Yes, my darlings, spring has sprung

March 22, 2014 By Carol Cassara 14 Comments

Spring. It's sprung, at least this week and at least in the San Francisco Bay area and on the Monterey peninsula. And in Sonoma. Here's what I found on my street: Down in Big Sur, the succulents are plump and green: Some are even flowering: Flowers in the wooden box at the Big Sur River . . .

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Filed Under: Trippin' Tagged With: California, Flowers, Gardening, San Francisco, Sonoma, United States

Breathing in the Beats at City Lights

March 20, 2014 By Carol Cassara 8 Comments

City Lights may well have the richest literary heritage of any independent bookstore in the United States. Inhale, and breathe in the history of Beat literature. City Lights is, arguably, where it all began. In San Francisco. It was founded in 1953 as a bookstore-publishing house by poet Lawrence . . .

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Filed Under: Trippin' Tagged With: Books, California, Entertainment, Poetry, San Francisco, United States

The pilgrimage called “life”

March 18, 2014 By Carol Cassara 6 Comments

When we think of pilgrimages we think of white-robed faithful walking a spiritual journey. They leave their destination expecting to encounter hardships along the way and, while seeing new things, develop new eyes. New ways of seeing. Their aim is to be changed at journey's end, to be changed . . .

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Filed Under: Soul School, Trippin' Tagged With: Life Lessons, New York, Rochester, Rochester New York, Soul Journey, Spirituality, United States

Tenements, immigrants + courage

March 14, 2014 By Carol Cassara 6 Comments

We think we're brave? No. Here's brave: A mother with babe in arms getting on a boat in Sicily--or Ireland--or any other country-- in some form of steerage under horrific, unsanitary conditions and coming alone to a strange land where she didn't even know the language. That's BRAVE. And this is . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Trippin' Tagged With: Blog, Family, first generation immigrant, Grandparents, New York, Rochester, Rochester New York, United States

My fantasy world

March 7, 2014 By Carol Cassara 22 Comments

So girlfriend and were chatting yesterday.  She's around my age and had a beautiful mother whose genes she inherited. Although she doesn't think so. And so she's had a few little cosmetic tweaks, even though her significant other thinks she's a goddess. No surprise. Because every girlfriend with a . . .

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Filed Under: Trippin' Tagged With: Aging, Beauty, Diet, Exercise, Food, Health, Life Lessons, NYC, United States

Snow, ice & Currier & Ives

February 24, 2014 By Carol Cassara 18 Comments

Snow.  That scene's  idyllic, isn't it? The snow looks so soft and fluffy. But when you've had so much of it, the charm dissipates a bit.  That's what my sister-from-another-mother in New Jersey tells me. And if I really try, I can remember my upbringing in the Snow Belt city of Rochester, NY and . . .

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Filed Under: Trippin' Tagged With: New York, Rochester, Rochester New York, syracuse, United States

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