It was nine years ago today…on my 50th birthday…that I launched this blog with a post called Giving Up Greece or Why I Started This Blog. And I did it with a bang. Announcing my intent to quit my job, sell everything, buy an RV and travel for the foreseeable future. Today, my 59th birthday, […]
Last week, I set the stage. Not a complicated one, to be sure. I suspect if you have ever been to a high school reunion, it had a ring of familiarity. But today’s post is the heart of the matter. What is a high school reunion really about? What are the moments of clarity and […]
In midsummer (last year), I returned to Wyoming for my dad’s 91st birthday and the fourth 10-year anniversary of my 10-year high school reunion. For those of you not good at math, that means I may have been attending my 40th reunion. No matter how it might have felt, indeed, it was the 40th. We […]
No, it’s not a typo. Let’s just say I’m a little late in getting this post out. When I started this post, it was going to be the Lists of First–that’s Lists with an “s”–for both 2022 and 2023. But with so many fun things to report, I decided to break them up into two […]
I suspect many people haven’t tried the animal substitute vegan products I talked about last week. But this week—even though we are still talking vegan products—may be different. I’m betting you’ve tried, or at least heard of many of the vegan snacks and other items below. Likely, however, you didn’t give a thought one way […]
Recently I have spoken to several people about vegan products and the vegan choices that I make. It made me remember the two posts I wrote about vegan products I use and love. So, I thought it would be a good time to revisit those posts, to see if those products I touted more than […]