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Poison Oak and Fear of Mountain Lions - Why I Love Hiking

Icon Written by on May 19, 2009 – 6:15 am

I love hiking despite the fact that I have things “to work on” while I’m in the woods. Some of these things are fairly irrational, such as my fear of falling. I am also overly cautious and am not in the shape I want to be. Yet I still go out there and hike - [...]

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Greek Yogurt and Honey - Remembering Santorini

Icon Written by on May 17, 2009 – 6:48 pm

The first time I had Greek yogurt with honey and walnuts was in Santorini. We traveled there in May. The wind is fierce that time of year and because of that, the jet stream is filled with sand from the Sahara desert. When asked about it, shop owners look worried - they’ll inevitably need to [...]

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How to Be Spontaneous

Icon Written by on May 6, 2009 – 4:50 am

You should see us on vacation - particularly when we go to Europe. It’s usually a group of us. We have a general idea of what we’d like to see but chances are, we only book our rental car and plane tickets in advance. We talk about it at breakfast - where should we go [...]

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Boudin - the San Francisco Sourdough Icon

Icon Written by on March 14, 2009 – 4:06 am

The trip to San Francisco happened last week from the 4th - 5th (that was for my own notes and remembrance!) but I haven’t written a post about this place until now. Why is that? It’s because I didn’t understand something. I couldn’t figure out why I liked it…
Let me explain. I have a history [...]

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An Irish Coffee at the Beuna Vista

Icon Written by on March 6, 2009 – 7:27 pm

Image by Galaga Gal via Flickr

My husband and I have a long history of time spent drinking Irish Coffees. Our favorite place to go when we lived in Germany was a little place in Starnberg called Cappuccino where the owner considered making Irish Coffees to be an art form. Watching him make them could hypnotize [...]

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