just a girl living the expat life
CREATING | a little bit of holiday season homeland-nostalgia by getting out our candle holder that my sister bought for me at the Cologne Christmas Market many years ago. KEEPING UP | with running (and cycling), because it’s truly been keeping me sane these last few months. LOVING | the blue skies this time of…
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All I want for Christmas this year is – obviously! – for this virus to go away and for everyone to see their families and loved ones. Duh. Screw the gifts. Since we can’t have that, we’ll distract ourselves with some pretty things and shiny objects, shall we? I put together a little holiday wish…
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Around the Interwebs A political obituary for Donald Trump. What a beautiful photography project: No Memory Is Ever Alone. Where did the commute time go? How people used their ‘extra’ time in a WFH life. The best good news of 2020. Our Covid life, illustrated. Fascinating. Physics explains why time passes faster as you age.…
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I had high hopes of getting a lot of reading done in November, especially with the long holiday weekend and nowhere to be. Well, let’s just say things didn’t quite work out that way. I ended up finishing one book in November. It was a hard, but necessary read. Maybe that’s why it was also…
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 This week, I am linking up with Kookyrunner and Zenaida for Tuesday Topics and and we’re sharing some gift ideas for runners/fitness enthusiasts this week. Who am I to NOT play along. I love…
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Can you believe it, just like that NaBloPoMo is over again. Every year, I worry what I will be blogging about for 30 days in a row and then I run out of days before I run out of blog ideas. So, there’s that (don’t worry… I’ll just keep blogging whenever the mood strikes, just…
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 This post has been years in the making. Spritzgebäck is the traditional holiday cookie in my family. Everybody gets involved. My Mom prepares the dough, my Dad and the kids (first my sister and I, then my cousin, now my…
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 Our Thanksgiving this year didn’t look much different than last year’s, to be honest, despite the pandemic. As previously mentioned, Jon and I are kind of used to spending holidays without seeing family, so it’s our “normal” to make it nice…
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 Five Things Friday: just five things I’m thinking about or things that made my week, or things that I otherwise feel like sharing. In case you missed my blog post earlier this week, I am part of the MudLOVE Wayfinder team…
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Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash Every year, for Thanksgiving, we reflect on the things we’re thankful for. It’s a good time to reflect on things in any given year, but it seems particularly important in this god-awful year that we’ve been all experiencing. I know many people are upset that new restrictions are in place, that we’re…
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