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Home Again Home Again Jiggety Jig
There is a children’s nursery rhyme that goes something like, “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggety jig.” For some reason, that phrase has stuck in my head and I often say it whenever I get home, even if home is a one-night hotel room. It reminds me…
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Culture, Culture, Everywhere
When I was young my family never traveled. My parents never left the country. The only trips I remember were a train trip to Florida to visit my grandparents and going from Massachusetts to New Hampshire for a weekend in the fall to stay in a rented cabin. We were 8 people piled into the…
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Living Between A Rock and A Hard Place
I am a person who has always created visions for myself in one-year increments. One-year seemed like a reasonable amount of time to look ahead. In fact, I have taught other people just how to do this. My mantra was, “If you create a vision and a plan to go with it, it will happen.”…
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The Sky May Not Be The Limit
There was a time when I was younger, these days that could mean in my 60’s, when the metaphoric idiom “The sky’s the limit”, applied to my dreams, visions and goals. It really meant that that there was no limit to what a person could have or want. I really did believe this and thought…
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When Death Comes
When I was 16, my father went to work on an early December Saturday morning, leaving at 4:00 am to open the bar where he worked. He went with my grandfather who was staying with us. My maternal grandparents stayed with us every year from April-October. This year was a little different. There was a…
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Get Lost!
In the days before the internet and cell phones, most of us traveled with a guide book. Fodder, Frommer’s and Lonely Planet were the three most popular. They listed hotels, restaurants, and sites in many cities in the world. They were big and heavy, and unless you got the latest version, many of the listings…
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Frame of Reference
In the early 80’s before Steve and I were married we decided to move from our apartment in Boston to the countryside in rural Maine. I thought it would be so romantic to live in the middle of nowhere and we bought a house on 10 acres of land bordering another 100 acres. I grew…
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