Dressing for Dental Surgery, Wardrobe Therapy To Quell my Fears. . .

Minor dental surgery, really, but I needed emotional fortification against my usual apprehensions. Read on to learn more. . . and perhaps you have a dental story of your own to share or will just lend me your insouciance!

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Travel Plans Derailed, Part 2

The shoes I wore to dinner after our first (successful — 28 km) day walking the Via Francigena wouldn’t fit me again this trip, thanks to a fall and a very swollen ankle the next day. I eventually reframed the experience more positively, but first. . . I might have done some weeping and gnashing of teeth. Click through to read on. . .

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San Quirico through the Side-View Window: When the Best-Laid Travel Plans Fail, Part 1

Home from Italy, enjoying my garden, sorting travel memories, and processing the experience of injuring my ankle on the second day of an intended week-long walk on the Via Francigena, Toscana. And wondering, “What’s Age got to do with It?” Click through to read more. . .

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I Had a Meltdown. . . and Then I Recovered. . . How’re You Doing?

First of all, here is the Mason Bee House in our condo-terrace “garden”. . . above, a photo from March 19th, and below, as it was yesterday afternoon.  Three of the tubes were completely empty…

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Of Books and Popcorn and Trips to Sunshine and . . . Broken Teeth? Ah, Not Again!

Yesterday afternoon, after a productive morning writing and working out in our condo gym (slowly getting back to my program after that prolonged cold/illness), I microwaved a bowl of popcorn and got comfy on the…

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