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What Do Bad Coffee, Buicks and Budget Films Have in Common? They’re Awesome.
The first car I drove was my parents’ (formerly my grandmother’s) ’89 Buick LeSabre Limited Edition. It was a beautiful, bronze boat and it was a pretty big deal. No one would ever accuse the Buick of...
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Dear God I’m Becoming One of Those Crazy Dog People
The only living thing I own besides the millions of bacteria in my gut is my plant Deb, who is a succulent. She prefers to be watered about once a month but can live forever without any moisture...
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Pancakes Are the Stuff of Heaven.
I saw a vision of paradise at a Guatemalan restaurant in Oklahoma City called Cafe Kacao. It was in the form of the most delicious pancakes I think I’ve ever tasted, and I’ve tasted a lot of pancakes....
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A Night Drive in Late August
After everyone else has gone to sleep, when the house is quiet, the dishes are washed and all I can hear is the kitchen clock ticking and the ceiling fan, this is the time for the night drive. Instead...
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I’m Back in San Francisco. Guess I Better Find My Jacket.
50 days and 6,000 miles (ish) later, I’m back in San Francisco and wearing a sweatshirt. I’m not going to try to do one of those here’s-all-the-crap-I-learned-while-I-was-traveling blog posts so don’t...
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23 Things That Are Easy to Forget About When You’re Just Living Life in San...
1. Weather. 2. Styrofoam. 3. Bugs, specifically mosquitoes and lightening bugs. 4. Free parking. 5. Warm summer nights when you can sit outside in a short-sleeved shirt and enjoy an ice cold beer. 6....
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WTF Was I Thinking: Real Quotes from the Ravings of a Traveling Madwoman
I wrote a lot during my 50-day travel adventure, sometimes at night debriefing the day I just had, sometimes during the day when I saw something bizarre or thought of an idea that seemed worth writing...
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….But You Gotta Have Friends (and Family)
So I’m kind of an “independent woman,” whatever that means. Like I’ll go eat a meal by myself at a restaurant if I want to so I’m told that makes me independent. Whoop dee doo. And I like being like...
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Why I Need to Be More Like My Plant Deb
I’ve been back in San Francisco for just shy of a week now – 6 days to be exact – and things are different. It’s not just because of the drought and the fact the trees look darker and slightly...
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50 Days by Bus, Plane, Train and Automobile: What They Took Out of Me, and...
On June 29th, I left sunny San Francisco for a 7 week, 50 day journey that took me to the Atlantic and back again. I returned on August 18th to a city in a drought and covered in fog, and since then...
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