photo credit: Stephanie Harvey via Unsplash It’s time for women to run the world for a change. Men had their chance and look where wer are. Watching a number of old, entitled (white) men act like they’re the center of the universe, treat other people with cruelty and disdain (and with complete impunity),...
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photo credit: @cloudett via Unsplash “Weckmann” time We just celebrated St. Martin’s Day in Germany, and that holiday goes hand in hand with these cute traditional pastries (“Weckmann”) that are given out to the kids on St. Martin’s Day. It’s a pastry in the form of a gingerbread man, which...
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Hey, hey friends! It’s that time again! NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month)is here and we’ll be attempting to write 30 posts in 30 days. I hope you’re as excited as I am. This is my 20th year of NaBloPoMo. In 2006, Eden Kennedy first launched the blogging challenge, and even though 2016 was...
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photo credit: @glencarrie via Unsplash January felt like a year long. And I am not going to lie, it was a rough month. Not what I was expecting at the start of 2025. I really wanted to get back to writing here regularly, writing about positive things and finding joy...
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Oh hey, 2025. Happy New Year, friends. Or not so happy. I posted this on Instagram the other day. Not what I wanted to post at the beginning of 2025. Uff. This year is off to a rocky start. We are just about half way through January, and I’d like...
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photo credit: @cloudett via Unsplash 1. I was so happy that today was a federal holiday and I had the day off. I slept in late and had a very lazy day. After a week of work travel and my race yesterday, I needed that. I was woken up by...
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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 Sunday, we had an unusual visitor in our backyard. I was cooking dinner when Jon walked into the kitchen and caught movement out of the corner of his eye. When he looked outside, he saw this big bird sitting on our fence in the backyard. I immediately got out my...
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