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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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. I tried to be present, fit in activities where I could, and tried really hard...
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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. A few days later, the world shut down. This year, I knew that it would...
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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 half marathon on her bucket list and signing up for the walk option of this...
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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 would have been a horribly dubbed German version of it and it would have been...
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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 wanted to write about before, but which I never put on (digital) paper. To get...
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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 day off around with my supervisor’s permission. So, a couple of weeks ago, I shifted...
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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 years (gasp!), my list is long, but again doesn’t include much out of the ordinary,...
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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, I got my green card through marriage (as you know), but Tanja (and her husband...
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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 is: as an introvert, I was afraid that a weekend retreat would exhaust me (spoiler...
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