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Warning: Coffee is an Addictive Substance that Can Affect Your Marriage
In my native habitat, I am aware I spend too much money on café Americano mistos out of paper cups. If the first step to “recovery” is awareness then I am aware. I have been, however, extremely unmotivated to change. My husband, a perplexing mixture of generosity and frugality, wishes it were different. But […]
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A Recipe for Comfort Food: Dutch/Italian Style
This is a rainy day, two people out of three maybe coming down with a virus, kid-friendly comfort food dish. Or so I thought. A spaghetti sauce bottom is topped with a baked rotini and aged Gouda cheese topping. This is what it looks like ready for the oven: First the spaghetti sauce. It works […]
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Two cell phones, one ipad, one tablet, three kindles, three ipods, a nintendo 3DS, and three lap top computers versus one husband.
Oh boy, there’s nothing like three days of single parenting in a foreign city where I don’t speak the language to erase all thoughts of early morning meditation! I have a renewed appreciation for my husband and the skill set he brings to our family. Things went quite sideways…no hot water in the flat, my […]
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Milan: A Morning Meditation
To travel well requires a receptively blank mind. Quiet the inner chatter. Silence the inner critic and accept what comes my way. So with my husband away on business and the kids and I in Milan for a few days, I start my morning… Milan, 7am. At my kitchen window. “My” elderly couple across the […]
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Jet Lag. Jet Bag.
Jet lag. When the local time says one thing and my body says another. Arriving in Milan in a fog we find a taxi big enough to fit us and our bags. A miracle, really, since we had been under the impression we could each take two checked pieces of luggage we have a herd […]
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What this is, what it’s not, and maybe why you might read it…
Or not. This blogging- is such a narcissistic enterprise. In researching (’cause that’s what I do) “how to blog”, I’ve read a few blogs. OMG…I guess I really don’t “get it”. But, I am going to figure this out as I go. So this is what I know so far: this blog is not going […]
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