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Continue reading →: RememberingThis weekend we walked in memory of my mother Anne to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association. My mom was a brilliant, driven and lovely woman. Educated at Middlebury College and Harvard University, she was a Latin Teacher, served as President of the League of Women Voters and on the…
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Continue reading →: 19 Years, Never ForgetThis past Friday was the 19th anniversary of 9/11. A sparklingly brilliant late summer northeastern day which turned tragic early. That terrible, awful day that ripped us apart, stole husbands and fathers, mothers and daughters from their families prematurely and in so doing brought us together in a way I’ve…
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Continue reading →: The last hummingbirdSeasons changing are bittersweet for us. Spring turning to summer means the beginning of relatively reliably beautiful weather, summer fruits and vegetables and the coming of the hummingbirds to the Colorado mountains. Watching hummingbirds any summer is good for the soul. Watching the aggressive ones chase away the docile ones…
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Continue reading →: High Mountain Movies under the StarsTo break our recent routine up a bit (since COVID began, more of our time has been spent re-engaging in the workforce than traveling or planning travel which means more nights at home both to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work and for virus avoidance) and we decided…
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Continue reading →: A Walk in the WoodsIn these difficult times where our country seems more divided (often angrily) than ever over countless issues: which life matters or matters more, whose rights are being violated by wearing a mask, how to remember the history of our country and who to support in November… solace can be found…
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Continue reading →: In limboAs people who have spent most of our adult and professional lives planning and preparing for contingencies and who applied this process to our post-professional lives as travelers and bloggers, COVID in a word sucks. It sucks for a whole bunch of reasons: death and sickness, social isolation, the massive…
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Continue reading →: World Gone WildSo what do travel bloggers write about when you can’t really travel places or go see things around the world? Well, you could write about the cruelty of a pandemic that kills indiscriminately but mostly takes out the elderly and compromised. Or you could write about how bandanna and mask…
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Continue reading →: The post COVID kidsMy work life was divided, simplistically, into pre-9/11 and post-9/11. Pre-9/11, airport “security” was not super secure. Shoes remained on, belts too. Heck, you could carry on all the shampoo you wanted, no clear plastic baggies needed here. You didn’t even need to show an ID when traveling within the…
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Continue reading →: Watching the ClockBy Melissa. My watch broke right before all the craziness started to happen and when I could get to the mall to have it repaired going to the mall no longer seemed like such a good idea. Those who know me well know I’m pretty obsessed with time. I’m irritated…
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Continue reading →: Surreal SpringSpring is usually a time we really enjoy. Evenings get longer, snow yields to flowers and budding trees. Birds chirp a little more joyously. People resume life more outdoors: exercising, cleaning up winter’s leavings, walking and gathering outside. For obvious reasons, this spring is surreal. Sure, the days are stretching…
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