Author Archives: Dawn Quyle Landau

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About Dawn Quyle Landau

Mother, Writer, treasure hunter, aging red head, and sushi lover. This is my view on life, "Straight up, with a twist––" because life is too short to be subtle! Featured blogger for Huffington Post, and followed on Twitter by LeBron James– for reasons beyond my comprehension.

Fair is fair

Every year, around the first of August, I start watching for the Northwest Washington Fair posters, that herald the arrival of one of my favorite summer traditions: a night at the fair grounds. Since moving here, we have only missed … Continue reading

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Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda…

What a month it’s been, what a week! Ok, what an amazing summer, for me to take stalk, explore new roads (literally and figuratively) and to look at a lot of things with new eyes. Coming out of some dark, … Continue reading

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Ode to the Middle Man

Note:  Strong sarcasm ahead. It is bred in me, and having just returned from the Boston area, where I grew up, it is on high gear right now. Also, while my kids have forbidden me to post their pictures or … Continue reading

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Come Fly with Me.

I’ve been traveling all day, from my original home in the Boston area, back to my current and forever home in the Seattle area. It is about a 12 hour trip, or more, with drives to each airport (rental cars … Continue reading

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PS to Grass is greener…

You can be sure that I will not make three posts on any other day, however, I have gotten so many comments from the Freshly Pressed post, “The Grass is Always Greener on Someone Else’s Head…”  I’ve heard from so … Continue reading

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Playlist to a reunion, just for the fun of it.

Don’t bother if you’re not a music person… but this is the playlist for my 30th high school reunion. There are so many songs I left off, so many more I could have put on here, but it touches on … Continue reading

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Wicked good.

It’s hard to sum up the past few days. It occurred to me to write some quick line like: “The reunion was amazing, I can’t say anymore.”  or “No comment.”  or “Two days later, I think I’m still hung over.” … Continue reading

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Friend me.

Life is funny. I waited a long time to get a Facebook account, and I’m still totally lame when it comes to working all the technology and keeping up with stuff that changes on line… But who knew that it … Continue reading

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Thank you, merci, gratzi, спасибо, tak, תודה, gracias!

This is a brief post to thank you to Word Press for featuring my last post, “The Grass is Always Greener on Someone Else’s Head” in Fresh Pressed yesterday. I was totally stunned, completely surprised, dizzy with delight, thrilled. I … Continue reading

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The Grass is Always Greener on Someone Else’s Head… or is it?

** Update:  This was post was originally published in August 2011. I had been blogging for six weeks, and it was Freshly Pressed. I had no idea what that meant at the time, I didn’t even realize it had been … Continue reading

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