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Lake Cachuma: Visiting, Bonding, Boating, Loving From a Distance

September 18, 2020 Deborah Paes de Barros Leave a comment

Does anyone remember that old Nancy Griffith, folky, indie song called “From a Distance”? (I think there’s a more recent…

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Posted in: Places, The Riviera of the Pacific, Uncategorized Filed under: #California's Central Coast, #Carry the Fire, #Lake Cachuma, #Socially Distanced Fun, #The Central Coast, #The Riviera of the Pacific

Becoming Brazilian: A Love Letter to My Mother

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Will be forthcoming in Adelaide Literary Magazine 2020 Essay Anthology Every day as the statistics for the Coronavirus become more…

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Posted in: So I Was Just Thinking..., The Riviera of the Pacific, Uncategorized Filed under: # The Bossa Nova, #Asrtrud Gilberto, #Brazil, #Brazilian on the Central Coast, #Joao Glberto, #The Riviera of the Pacific, #Visit the Central Coast

So, What Do We Eat While Sheltering in Place?

April 8, 2020 Deborah Paes de Barros Leave a comment

      So, what are you eating? There’s a kind of irony for us. Here we are on the…

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So we’ve all just stopped

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Long ago (around the first of March), in a different life time in a different world I wrote a flippant…

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Me and My (Vegan) Insta Pot

March 9, 2020 Deborah Paes de Barros Leave a comment

You know it’s a cult, right? Everywhere I look people post recipes and almost embarassingly gushing testimonies to their fling…

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Posted in: Just Call it Vegan, Recipes Filed under: insta pot, instant pot, Rancho Gordo beans, vegan

The Riviera of the Pacific: The Re-Launch

March 4, 2020 Deborah Paes de Barros

In 2008 the people who produce the Oxford Dictionary declared that “locavore” was the word of the year. The term…

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Posted in: Places, The Riviera of the Pacific Filed under: California Central Coast, Central Coast, Riviera of the Pacific, What to do on the Central Coast

Here’s to the Beach Boys

February 24, 2020 Deborah Paes de Barros

The Bear Flag Republic Sometime in the 1960s, as Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys composed their odes to surfing…

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Posted in: So I Was Just Thinking..., Uncategorized Filed under: California dreaming, california girl, why I love california

Surf’s Up

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Morro Bay and the WSA—Western Surf Association—Surf Championship November 9th and 10th I wanted to walk around the Rock—you know,…

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Posted in: So I Was Just Thinking..., The Riviera of the Pacific Filed under: California dreaming

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