Translating California’s Spanish Place Names

The landscape of our country is dotted with interesting place names.  As a group, Spanish explorers, missionaries, and settlers in particular really left their mark. Even on the state level, their influence is felt from coast to coast: Florida (flowery)

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The Fine Line Between Branding and Annoying

Having recently canceled my XM radio again, I’m back with 103.3 FM.  This is the country station for Modesto/Stockton.  There’s nothing in the Bay Area so I’m thankful to pick up their signal from the Central Valley. The only problem

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State of Jefferson

photo credit Jill Fredrickson

If you drive I-5 in Northern California and Southern Oregon, you may notice some references to the State of Jefferson.  There’s a barn near Yreka with a giant sign and lots of cars on the road have “Resident of State

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How Out of Touch is Wells Fargo?

Yesterday I called Wells Fargo in an attempt to make some progress on one of my goals for the year. I explained to the customer service rep that our house was “severely underwater”, and that I wanted to find out

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Indoor Skydiving

ifly nick

Bryn and I have been sitting on a gift certificate for indoor skydiving at iFly ever since our wedding.  We finally got around to using it last Friday — thanks Christy & Brian! The set-up is basically a vertical wind-tunnel,

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