This year I participated in a couple of holiday swaps, because as I mentioned in my wish list post, I am trying to get all the holiday cheer I can get my hands on. There is nothing better than finding a sweet note and a little something in the mail...
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I polled on Twitter a couple of weeks ago if anybody was interested in a holiday mug swap and a few people responded, so I wanted to give this a go as a little act of kindness before the holidays. The basic idea of the swap is to buy one...
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As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I was planning another “girls’ day getaway” with my friend Susi, which we’re trying to make an annual thing) and that happened to be last Sunday. We both had been overdue for some uninterrupted girl time. There is something so energizing and...
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… and it was more than I could have ever asked for. I am much too late blogging about this, but I cannot not mention the wonderful weekend I spend with my dear friend Caryn in Los Angeles a couple of months ago. It was just before my trip to...
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I spent the last weekend in the Nevada desert meeting up with 60+ amazing bloggers of which I had met only one or two in person before (actually three come to think of it) for the ultimate unconference ‘Bloggers in Sin City” and, truth be told, I don’t even like Las Vegas all that much. That, however, didn’t...
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I am recapping the three weeks of fun that I had with my family this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. After a good night’s rest, we got up early today (8/10) to explore the Wine Country. Being a geologist, I had to – of course...
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I am recapping the three weeks of fun that I had with my family this summer. See all related posts under the category: summer tales. We left the Bodega Bay Inn in the morning and our route today (8/9) took us further up Highway 1 along the beautiful northern Californian...
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J and I had a lovely, long Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice, cozy, quiet – just the two of us – and almost a bit too long. (Did I really just say that?) Well, you know the kind, where it gets really hard to go back to work on Monday....
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