Category: VACATION
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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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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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Music: The Sensory Edition
If you know me, or have followed this blog for any amount of time, you realize that I love music. I use music for mood alteration, inspiration, and escape. My preferred listening method is live, in concert. For sanity sake, I try to attend at least two live performances a year but life doesn’t always…
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New Orleans Revival
I finished the first draft of FORTITUDE last Tuesday, September 10, 2013. Cue the party horns! It felt great and I immediately took a few days off from serious writing because I busted my fingers and brain the previous two weeks to get it done. Yes, even though it’s Laurie Halse Anderson’s annual WFMAD challenge…
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Diva of the Day
As noted in the previous post, my family attended a wedding in June. We drove 800 miles to central Illinois to see my sister-in-law’s union to her boyfriend of several years. Hooray for them! A family road trip with three kids is one thing. Having your four-year-old diva surpass half a dozen meltdowns in one…
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