Category: friends

Friendship thoughts

photo credit: @fr0k3 via Unsplash Rachel shared her thoughts on friendship a little while back, and what a timely post. I had been thinking about friendships myself. Rachel talked about how having twin babies to take care of has really shifted some of her friendships (at least temporarily). It’s interesting...

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On my birthday

As mentioned in my previous post, this week was my first “official” pandemic birthday. Last year, my birthday marked the last day of 2020 when Jon and I went out to dinner at a restaurant. A few days later, the world shut down. This year, I knew that it would...

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Milestones

This weekend, I was supposed to run the American River Parkway Half Marathon with my friend Tanja.  A couple of months ago, I had talked Tanja, a self-proclaimed NON-runner (but avid cyclist), into putting a half marathon on her bucket list and signing up for the walk option of this...

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Girl time in OC

Last week, I visited my #fromURLtoIRL friend Tanja in Southern California and I had such a fantastic time! Tanja, like me, is a German (dual) citizen and we’ve “immigrated” around the same time (2006/2007), however, I got my green card through marriage (as you know), but Tanja (and her husband...

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