Musings
Luanne Oleas ponders life

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Years ago, after several miscarriages, I became pregnant again. The whole pregnancy was riddled with doubt. Would the baby go full term? I felt that the first words I said to my offspring—if there was an offspring—should be special. I decided I would sing a Judy Collins song. My daughter was born one October night at the first […]

Hello, City of Cupertino. There’s a dip in the road you really need to fix at 10554 Santa Lucia Road. I know it’s there because I crashed my bicycle after hitting it . In years past, it would have never been there. With today’s budget crisis, there are potholes everywhere. This particular dip gave me […]

   At some point, I crossed an imaginary line. Time, in my lifetime, became finite. Suddenly, I didn’t want to talk to uninteresting people, read uninteresting books, or take boring vacations.    It was as if I had x amount of time left, and y number of things to do in that time. I didn’t […]

There may not be a litmus test for how much you dislike your job. However, I’ve done some intensive research at past jobs. (BTW, this research is on-going.) The signs include: You would rather be at the dentist. Any time that sitting in the dentist’s chair is preferably to sitting at your desk at work, you have […]

 “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” – President Obama to Wall St.,  4/29/2010      It’s a real danger in Silicon Valley. I’ve seen it happen to my neighbors—but not me. <sigh> Now the President is warning us of this rare, but terrible, plight. Just so you don’t fall into the […]

     In my former life, I was a journalist. Once, I had decided to write a news article on train travel, and Amtrak had comped me three tickets to do it.      The travel required that I ride the Coast Starlighter from Salinas to San Luis Obispo, wait 20 minutes, and catch the train back. My daughter, 4, and my mother-in-law […]

     It’s not easy living the virtual life. It’s now Spring in Silicon Valley and the sun is beckoning. But that puts such a glare on my laptop screen, I am inside.      There’s blogs to write, Facebook posts to answer, and I must follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter. Somehow, he finds a way to […]