First, a little background. Santa Cruz County puts a lot of effort into organizing its youth soccer. There are several different structured recreational teams, and several different structured competitive teams, as well as more informal arrangements.…
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West Cliff, a Santa Cruz Esplanade
It’s a place for a Sunday afternoon stroll for us, the home of the Surfing Museum for others, the home of Steamer Lane and Lighthouse Point, and for the Hanlons, it’s a hundred…
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2005: starting to move on!
Here’s a summary of 2005, loosely based on the annual update circulated to friends and family around Christmas time. Greetings and best wishes for the holiday season from Santa Cruz! 2005 marked the…
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Thanksgiving 2005: with the Hanlons
Did we mention that the Hanlons are great cooks? Well, if not we should have, and they are! We had not a moment’s hesitation when they invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner in…
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Ian’s Friends
My friends are the ones that keep going, come hell or high water, and through the ups and downs. There are a few, at least one or two, from each period in…
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Yosemite
Ever since I first saw the Yosemite Valley, during a weekend trip from Berkeley sometime during the 1976-7 school year, it has been one of those places where my mind turns when…
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Legal eagle!
Okay, we can’t argue with the obvious: being a corporate lawyer is not very sexy, and being a lawyer often evokes a certain disdain. Just in case I had not noticed this regrettable…
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Ian Stock (born in Buckinghamshire, England)
So what did I bring into this extended Brady Bunch? Well, first, Nick, Tom and I. We were our own little family back in 1994, living in a forest southwest of Paris,…
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Nick and Daphné were our first two High School graduates . . .
Nick with his Grandma (“Yaya”) after receiving his diploma from Scotts Valley High School in June 2004 Daphné with Alban after receiving her diploma from Harbor High School in June 2005 On the left is…
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Happy Valley School, Santa Cruz
Happy Valley School is the wonderful elementary school where Daphné and Alban started in September 1997, Tom in 1999, Charles in 2000 and Alexander in 2003. (Nicholas went directly to Branciforte Junior High School when…
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Brocéliande
In the interior of Brittany, the peninsula that is the westernmost part of mainland France, France’s Cornwall if you will, is la Brocéliande, the magic land of Merlin and, if you believe the…