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Latest Posts
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Book Recommendation: Becoming Future You, by Mel Jolly
I have enjoyed and benefited from Mel Jolly’s newsletter for several years, and I’m excited that she has written a book, I’ve read it, and I’m wholeheartedly recommending it. Mel Jolly’s bio reads, in part: “Mel Jolly has been working with authors and creative entrepreneurs for nearly two decades.” Mel is a life coach with…
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I Did It, and Home!
The plan had been to blog my adventures along the way of 2200 miles to my hometown and back home again. I was excited about that, and believe, me I wrote a whole lot in my head. But when it came to getting it onto this blog, I either did not have time or was…
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Hometown Bound
I thought about this trip for over a year. A long trip home to take Mama’s ashes to bury in the family plot by her grandfather and get her a headstone, see my hometown one last time and visit cousins and see sights on the way. The trip was one reason behind buying my new…
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Recent Read: A New Kind of Country, by Dorothy Gilman
Dorothy Gilman remains one of my favorite writers. She was the beloved author of the Mrs. Pollifax series of spy/adventure novels, as well as a number of single-title mysteries. From the time I read Gilman’s A Nun in the Closet, I was hooked and went on to read, and re-read, everything she wrote. Not that…
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Solo Camper Girl
Many of you remember when I began my travel trailer adventures back in 2017–me and my dear dog, Faith. This spring I decided that this would be the year I do more traveling and follow more dreams. As everyone says to me: “Do it while you can.” I’m not getting any younger and neither is…
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