Tag: Yolo
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Then I was…thinking about rites of passage
This past weekend was my middle son, Mitchell’s, bachelor party weekend. Brennan and his oldest brother, Seth, are Mitch’s best men, so they took the reins on planning. Needless to say, I’ve never been to a bachelor party, but I’ve heard about a few. When I got married, many moons ago, my soon-to-be husband came…
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Then I was…thinking about classic American literature.
If you have had a chance to read Brennan’s bio on the What We’re Reading page, you know that he has been on a mission to read “the classics” of American literature. Honestly, he’s read books that I never did. I wasn’t much of a reader when I was a kid, I much preferred to…
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Then I was… Buying a coffee at my locally owned café
This morning, I went on a walk around my neighborhood, as I do. I love morning walks. At the tail-end of my walk, I decided to hit up my local coffee shop, Sense of Place Café. Sense of Place is a locally owned coffee shop, and I frequently visit there before starting work on weekdays.…
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Then I was…on a different continent!
I recently had the amazing good fortune to visit Paris, France (yea, well, I could have meant Texas…) and Tunis, Tunisia for ten days. What an adventure! I saw things I’d read about in books and magazines for years – IRL – and things I never even imagined too. Paris was, honestly, not a city…
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Then I was… Curious about humanity’s well-being in the 21st century (A series)
In the past ~120 years, humanity has undergone more change than it had from the birth of Jesus ’til the Industrial Revolution. Take a second to contemplate how this idea functions in your own life. Every day, we humans communicate with one another. We need to communicate with each other to make plans for the…
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Then I was… enjoying a Monday??
I know it’s hard to imagine, but this week, on Monday, my office was buzzing with energy. Not ever having been a big fan of Mondays, I really noted the change in atmosphere, and numerous of my coworkers commented on it too. We’re all normally attached to a caffeine drip on Mondays, so it was…
Then I Was... 