I am linking up again for the Weekly Run Down with Kim and Deborah. I was still in Germany this week and continued spending precious time at my childhood home with family and visiting friends....
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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....
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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...
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It’s been 25 years (WHAT?) since the first episode of F·R·I·E·N·D·S premiered on television. I have to admit, I never watched the show when it first aired. Which is probably a good thing, as it...
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Photo by Julie Johnson on Unsplash My blog friend Charlotte wrote an interesting blog post about cutting ties with friends the other day and it stirred something up in me that I had thought and...
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One thing I love about my job is that I am allowed to work a flex schedule (four 10-hour days and three-day weekends, booyah!) and that this also affords me the option to shift my...
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Once again, I’ll be traveling home soon and I have a bucket list of things to do when I am there. Everyone does have such a list, right? Since I haven’t been home in two...
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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,...
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Have you been to a wellness retreat before? In all honesty, I used to go back and forth between really wanting to do it and thinking that it was definitely not for me. My problem...
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The weekend before last, I participated in the annual Davis Pride Run for Equality 10k again. If you recall, I ran this small local race last year for the first time and it’s the...
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