All relationships, including the relationships we have with where we live, have things we cannot accept. We call these things deal breakers. When Husband and I were considering moving abroad, I mentally scribbled down a deal breaker list: if it doesn’t have this I’m not considering it. If it doesn’t have that I’m not going… and […]
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The Trouble with Resolutions and How To Fix It
I’ve ditched resolutions. Full ditch. No remorse. Resolutionless. It isn’t that I don’t like the idea of goals, I just feel like convincing myself to do something – now – that I’ve had a whole year to do is sort of silly reasoning. (Lose weight. Ehhh. Start working out. Meh. Quit drinking. Definitely not.) I could have done […]
Don’t Leave the Resort and Other Things Vacationers Say
Recently, I wrote about the abroad version of WebMD and how sometimes we read too much about a place before getting there and instead of feeling confident we end up freaking ourselves out. As I mentioned then, researching is a good thing but we also have to be careful where we get our information from. MYTH: […]