December 2011
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New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday, but when done right — like escaping the crowds with an intimate group and holing up with delicious food and drink for a weekend away (like last year on Little Gasparilla Island) — then it rules. But usually it doesn’t.
This year I’ll don my new cocktail dress and attend a civilized party — no...
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I’ve stalled on writing a post about India long enough. The realization came that I probably never will be able to write one summary of a trip like this one—because it was one that changed my life.
How did it change your life? Well, I’ve simply said that I felt like I went to India with something unknown broken, and I came back with whatever it was fixed.
What was...
You might not think a yoga teacher would come home from work exhausted, but with post-India Bronchitis and jet lag, and I’ve been dragging myself in the door and sliding into bed for a little power nap.
(Arlo sees nothing wrong with this, but I’m a little concerned.)
Hopefully my energy will start returning before you spot me in the corner huffing one of these: an inhalable...
This video series is hilarious. Mostly because the accuracy is incredible. Here is the reason why I search long and hard for the most exceptional women as my girlfriends.
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Nerds and Birds
Obviously my nerdy ornithologist tendencies could not be restrained while in India, a country that is rich with life, including bird life.
Egrets, herons, grebes, moorhens, wrens, cormorants, bitterns, sandpipers, hawks and other familiar North American-type birds abound, but here are some of the more unusual winged creatures we came across… that I can identify. Dozens, I could not.
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Dear Readers,
I write to thank you for your continued patience as I push through not only jet lag from a 40 hour door-to-door trip home, but through the flurry of observations, thoughts and emotions that have flooded my brain since entering Incredible India.
Soon, I promise, there will be updates of photos, stories, notes and the typical typo-filled ramblings on which your daily...