Category: Blog
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From Cairo, part 3
We are back at Deb’s after an exhausting day in Cairo. Heck, Cairo is so chaotic and impossibly inefficient that just spending the day doing NOTHING is an exhausting day. We are back at Deb’s after an exhausting day in Cairo. Heck, Cairo is so chaotic and impossibly inefficient that just spending the day doing…
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Weird Christmases
Christmas seems to get more and more distant the older I get. Perhaps it’s because I don’t have children. Or perhaps Christmas in America IS, indeed, changing. More frantic. Less time to prepare, but a stronger, unspoken obligation to prepare, and a heavy guilt trip if you don’t. There’s a distinct voice in my head…
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From Cairo, part 4
Wow. So much has happened today that if I had started to write it all down in my journal, I would have been writing nonstop and nothing else would have happened. The unfortunate side to this is that I have lost many little details to oblivion. The wonderful side of this is that if I…
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Australia, part 1
Greetings from Sydney, Australia! I’m sending this on Friday morning at 10:00am, but for most of you it’s 5:00pm on Thursday. J-P and I flew here yesterday after just barely escaping a big ice storm that practically shut down the DFW airport just a few hours after our plane departed. Our flight from Los Angeles…
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Australia, part 2
So we just spent a lovely day in Sydney, doing all the quintessential Sydney things… I stripped naked in front of the opera house and got a fantastic Butt and Scarf photo. We strolled through The Rocks, a collection of the oldest buildings in Australia. We took the ferry to Manley, Sydney’s beach town, and…
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Australia, part 3
I’m sorry I haven’t written in three days. It’s not because I haven’t had access, a connected computer has been sitting next to my bed the entire time. It’s simply because these Aussies live a RIDICULOUSLY hedonistic lifestyle, and we’ve just been caught up in it all. After our long day in Sydney, we wanted…