photo credit: @uns__nstudio via Unsplash I might not listen to many podcasts, but I like the idea of listening to podcasts. I just don’t make enough time for it. This post is not about podcasts, but it could be. Kae recently shared that she listens to The Lazy Genius and that...
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photo credit: Hayley Seibel via Unsplash And that, my friends, is how you fall off the blogging bandwagon. Did you miss me? Last week was my birthday. Two years ago on my birthday was the last time Jon and I had eaten out at a restaurant. On March 11, 2020,...
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photo credit: Chris Montgomery via Unsplash This is my first update in 5 months. It didn’t feel appropriate to let the anniversary-week of the start of the pandemic pass by without mentioning it. I mean, not much and so much has happened. We’re still in a pandemic (I know!) and...
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Happy New Year, friends. I hope you all arrived safely in the much anticipated year of 2021. I always have a little bit of a delayed blogging start in January. I always feel like lots of posts revolve around resolutions, goal mapping, new intentions, and while I think about these...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 (Photo seen on Instagram. If you know the source, please let me know so that I can give proper credit.) WE VOTED HIM OUT. We elected a good, NORMAL, humble, decent man back into the White...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 photo credit @blessthemessy I didn’t know what I was going to write about today. When I outlined my NaBloPoMo posts, I purposefully left today’s date open. I expected that I would actually sit down today and...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 Jon used to be a huge Halloween fan. Me? Not so much. I didn’t grow up celebrating Halloween (in Germany, November, 1 – All Saint’s Day – is a national holiday, but we didn’t celebrate Halloween...
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image credit: @libbyvanderploeg We’re less than a week away from election day and I don’t know what I could say at this point that hasn’t been said. I am tired, I am enraged (my stomach is figuratively in knots and on fire and I have the heartburn to prove it),...
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It’s been 7 months since I’ve been to my office, eaten at a restaurant, or seen any friends. We’ve postponed a visit to my in-laws (in March), canceled a whole three-week road trip with my family (in July), and forwent a whole slew of other outings we would certainly have...
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My last check-in was almost 6 weeks ago. I tell you, I don’t know where the time goes. This is nuts, but this week I’ve officially been working from home for 5 whole months. I have to admit: I like the ‘working from home’- part. I like the slowed-down pace...
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