June Already? And It’s SO Busy!

A post about what I’ve been up to this week — so much going on! — and sharing a couple of pages from my sketchbook.

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Random Abundance . . . OOTDs and Ankle Recovery Included . . .

Thinking about Aging in the Aftermath of a minor but (temporarily) limiting injury . . . And finding self-care in What I Wear. All part of a continuing and evolving conversation — Perhaps you’d like to join in? Just click through to read more.

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Newly Septuagenarian!

I celebrated my 70th birthday this week in a beautiful seaside lodge with family. . . and now, newly launched into this 8th decade, I’m pausing for a bit to breathe mindfully. A very short post with a few photos (in one of which a Nana has been paparazzi’d by a daughter who somehow saw beauty in a grey, curly, ungroomed head of hair — in conversation with a sweet red-haired grandgirl. . . Click through to see . . .

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Posso Aiutarmi: Confessions of a Travelling Nana

The title of this post comes from an anecdote I told my granddaughter in the back seat of the car, on a day trip from Rome to three different hilltop towns in Lazio. An anecdote that made her laugh until she cried — at my expense! — and also helped me reframe some negative thinking. Click through to find out more.

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April Reading

Like this whimsically illustrated children’s book I picked up at a bookstore in Rome, my April Reading mixed English and Italian together. That is, it included one Italian mystery novel and, in English, one stand-out memoir and a few good mysteries, Click through to check out the titles and, I hope, to join the book chat and leave some reading suggestions of your own.

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