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broke on my birthday

~ and other stories of living the fairy tale life

broke on my birthday

Category Archives: travel

Pre-Christmas Hike

December 24, 2012

When people ask me, I will tell them we climbed all the way to the summit. This will be followed …

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A Perfect Day

November 22, 2012

Five weeks is too long to go without seeing a good friend. Especially when that friend lives only forty-five minutes …

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A Mini-Trip

July 17, 2012

I’m writing from a brown leather couch in the middle of America. [Thanks to Southwest Airlines and my incredibly delayed …

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Back from the Beach

July 6, 2012

Back home from a glorious week at the ocean. We tried to calculate how many summers we’ve trekked just far …

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Riding the Train

May 1, 2012

(So I started my TEFL class. More on that in another post.) I stood up on the T today – it’s …

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On My Way

February 14, 2012

It’s a cloudy day here, and I’m doing some last-minute packing and a CVS run for travel-size “necessities.” It’s embarrassing …

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What I Want to do on My Trip!

February 10, 2012

On the Plane Finish Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and start Slouching Towards Bethlehem I opened Blue Nights by Didion …

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What I Want to do on My Trip!

February 10, 2012

On the Plane Finish Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and start Slouching Towards Bethlehem I opened Blue Nights by Didion …

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Packing My Bags

February 10, 2012

Four days and I will be on a plane to a place I’ve never been. Oklahoma may not be the …

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"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson

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