Tag: friendship
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Saturday Morning Run (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 18)
The fog-like clouds hung low over Lake Superior, the sun trying to push through and welcome the day. Peer pressure is a good thing … when the temperature is in the 20’s (Fahrenheit), and it is more tempting to hit the snooze button rather than roll out of bed and dig out the winter running…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
How appropriate that the photos I selected to illustrate “treasure” are not the best quality photographs, but rather snapped on the fly (or, should I say, “on the ski”) with my phone this weekend. I had another post almost completed for this week’s challenge, but it became apparent to me on a relaxing ski through the woods with…
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Female Friendships: Keeping Me Afloat in the Sea of Testosterone
I love my husband. I love my teenaged boys. Thank goodness for my female friendships. These were my thoughts as I drove home from book club this evening. In my rather unscientific study of the subject of the differences between men and women, undertaken while raising two boys and enjoying over 20 years of marriage to…
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20 Years of Food and Friendship
The header photo on the home page of my blog is a scene of the Chianti countryside from the drive back to Siena from Panzano. To me, it embodies a classic Tuscan view — the rolling hills, the grapevines, the olive trees, the cluster of old buildings comprising a little hill town. It also reminds me…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 