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How to Take Travel from Good to Fabulous

How to Take Travel from Good to Fabulous

What are your travel indulgences? Champagne at night? Hot tea every morning? Perhaps a pedicure or a truffle from a nearby chocolaterie? When my dear friend Margo from The Travel Belles invited me to join her blog carnival on travel indulgences, I was happy but also...

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Sunshine Makes Everything Better

Sunshine Makes Everything Better

Hello dear folks! How are you doing this Monday morning? After the coldest spring in recorded HISTORY, Washington finally got summer this weekend!!! WOOHOOHOO!!! I'm still basking in the bliss of going barefoot and getting a sunburned nose from snoozing in the...

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So Much Better Than Dead

So Much Better Than Dead

Good morning, luvs. 🙂 I have missed you SO much! My poor computer has been at death's door since last weekend so I haven't been able to post a thing, but my dear friend Darren fiddled with it until all hours last night and managed to bring it back from the brink....

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One Brave Thing

One Brave Thing

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. - M. Rutherford - I have been afraid this week. Afraid when I try to sleep at night. Afraid when I...

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Time to Call the Police

Time to Call the Police

I don't want to write this post today. I want to numb myself with movies and sleep and pretend the events of this weekend didn't happen. But they did. I know they did because I can't stop shaking. I can't stop wracking sobs from bursting out of nowhere. I want to stay...

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Sometimes It’s Nice to Just Sit

Sometimes It’s Nice to Just Sit

For the first time in cooking club history, I arrived this week bearing absolutely nothing save my bedraggled self. You know you're among friends when they tell you to "come and just sit with us" when you're so tired you can't come up with a Japanese recipe to save...

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