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Continue reading →: Could #VanLife be for me? I think so!Oh, boy, did I fall into a rabbit hole this week. Remember when I said I don’t need much space to live in, I’d be happy in a tiny home with a postage stamp garden? Well, the other day I went on YouTube to search for something, and the algorithm…
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Continue reading →: Feliz Año Nuevo from MadridMy first award trip finally arrived! This is the one I booked back in August for $126 and 58,100 miles. At the time I thought that was a really solid redemption, but my trip to London this coming August was significantly less, coming in at $289 and 18,000 points. Regardless,…
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Continue reading →: My First House SitI did my first house sitting gig this week, and it went pretty well. I drove down to Arlington, VA on Monday. What should have been a 4.5 hour drive took more like 6 hours because of holiday traffic and a Costco/Michaels pitstop. But the food and craft supplies were…
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Continue reading →: Writing: Is it the Journey or the Destination?I started bullet journaling in late 2016. I don’t remember how I heard about the practice, but I had just left a full-time job to start my own business, and I needed a way to keep better track of my life. My bullet journals change from year to year, the…
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Continue reading →: Finding the Silver LiningAbout two months ago, my pin-straight hair suddenly went curly. Such is the life of a perimenopausal woman. *sigh* My body is reinventing itself for the back nine. I’m used to just parting my hair out of the shower and heading out the door. This is no longer an option.…
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Continue reading →: Death and Stove TopAs we finished the last bites of our turkey, my 84-year-old father put on his serious face. “While I have you all together, I’d like you to know that your mom and I have secured a cemetery plot.” What followed was a lively conversation over apple pie and vanilla ice…
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Continue reading →: Allt för Sverige (Everything for Sweden)My mother emigrated to the U.S. from Sweden when she was just 20 years old. She initially came over as an au pair, met my dad on a blind date, and they got married a year later. They’ve now been married for an astounding 58 years. It wasn’t until I…
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Continue reading →: A Trail of Two BridgesThe unseasonably warm fall weather has meant that I’ve been able to continue with long distance cycling. My intention is to keep riding into the cold weather, as long as the roads are dry. We will see. This week’s adventure took me on a 50-mile bike ride down the New…
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