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Continue reading →: Sixteen Countries in 7 MonthsAs much as I’d like to visit every country on my wishlist when I begin my epic world adventure, the reality is if I try to hop from country to country every 5-7 days I’m going to quickly burn out. I’ve narrowed my list of 41 countries down to just…
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Continue reading →: One Month to FreedomI woke up this morning and realized I didn’t have a blog post written for today. It’s been a busy week for me, with two 8-10 page research papers and a descriptive statistics project all due next week. Forgive me, dear reader, for not thinking of you more. I’m coming…
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Continue reading →: How ChatGPT Is Helping Me Sell Everything I OwnAlmost every day I see another news article about advances in artificial intelligence. The A.I. Futures Project spent the last year trying to predict what the future will look like as A.I. gets more and more embedded into our daily lives. They predict that A.I. systems will surpass human-level intelligence,…
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Continue reading →: United in Rage and HopeI attended my first protest this week, alongside millions of my fellow Americans. Yes, I’m 53 years old and I’ve never been to a protest before. The last time around, five years ago, my kids were still young and there was a deadly disease floating around and it just didn’t…
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Continue reading →: Boston by Foot and HeartMy younger son Charley will be going to Northeastern University in the fall, where he applied Early Decision II (binding) without having ever visited the school. On Friday night, we spontaneously decided to make the 3-hour drive up to Boston, MA in the morning to take an organized tour. We…
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Continue reading →: The Stupid CoupI’d like to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to talk about politics for a moment. I will understand if you choose not to read this one (I love you, sis!), but it feels like the elephant in the room as I go about my regular life planning trips and adventures.…
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Continue reading →: Puerto Rico: La Isla del EncantoLast week I hopped on a plane by myself and flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was my first time taking a trip like this alone. Granted, Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but it feels like going to another country. For one thing, it’s a tropical…
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Continue reading →: Me, Myself, and a Piña ColadaI’m headed off to Puerto Rico this morning for some much needed R&R. In the last two weeks I had to write two papers, do a presentation, and take a midterm exam, and I am looking forward to a week-long break from school. I also had a difficult week at…








