1. Because I haven’t mentioned it in a while and wanted to make sure you don’t forget, I love my Chemex coffeemaker. After a week of travel earlier this month and acceptable, but mediocre hotel coffee for five days, I was so glad to get home to my Chemex....
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SAVORING | the first cup of coffee in the morning. FEELING | frustrated with some communications at work. Why can’t some people just be clear in their writing and straight-forward in their message, for the love of all Germans? Are you the native speaker, or am I? WEARING | my...
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To be quite honest, I am not prepared for cold weather running. Like, at all. Cold weather here in California is still well above 32°F and so snow is not a concern and even my layering is pretty minimal. The only thing I’d have to be concerned about is rain,...
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Around the Interwebs 5 Online-Shopping Browser Extensions That Effortlessly Save Me Money. Everything is not going to be okay. Everyone’s running – and that could be dangerous for the Democrats. How do you feel about this big field of contenders? I totally love this approach. Treat failure like a scientist....
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I apologize, I skipped the spending report for the last quarter of 2018, but since we’re already well into the first quarter of 2019, I decided to just do my annual spending report and call it a day. I hope that’s ok with you guys. Some of my friends, who...
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This week is Valentine’s Day, so it’s an appropriate time to talk about the things we love about running! As most of you know, my blog is not exclusively a running blog, but running-related posts have been sneaking in more and more over the last few years. It’s just become...
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Photo by @missnjc on Unsplash I know, I am late with this. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I’ve picked a guiding word for the year for a few years now, but sometimes the word comes easier than other times. (Here are the words...
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I started off my reading with two fiction and two non-fiction books this year. Every Note Played by Lisa Genova (★★★★★) This is a story about a pianist with ALS and the havoc the disease causes for his entire family. His ex-wife, a pianist herself, steps up as his caretaker....
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