Category: balance
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Bucket List, Check!
My number one bucket list item is officially checked off: I attended my first Europe concert this past weekend. It only took twenty-five years and nearly a thousand miles of driving, but people have always told me I’m patient. Yes, Europe is in America, at least for a few more days. My family and I…
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Bibliophile Problems
If you couldn’t tell from my previous posts, I’m a book girl. There are a lot of books in my house. I’m talking more than dozens, more than hundreds, probably a couple thousand. I’ve never counted them all—that would mean math, and me and numbers don’t always get along. This afternoon, after answering yet another…
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Vacation from Reality
Vacations are great. They’re so nice, sometimes I need a break from real life after a vacation—the old “I need a vacation to recuperate from my vacation” situation. That’s about what happened, but now I’m here, and this week marks my first full one back in the old routine. Boring, you might think, but it’s…
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Midyear Reality Check
As noted in a previous post, my life fell apart sometime late spring. True, it was nothing disastrous—more like a mini-emotional breakdown—but it was a call to action. My reading slowed. My writing was non-existent. My health and sanity = Scary Carrie. I’m happy to report the past six weeks have proven productive, as well…