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“She has many wrinkles to show her great knowledge of the world.” –Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave. I hope this line will be a fitting way to describe me when I am an old lady. Now that I’ve surely passed the halfway mark, I’m starting to take cues from lively nonagenarian friends like Phyllis,
A few weeks ago, I opened my Twitter feed and discovered a thread that went something like this. Tweet One: “Ya’ll, the volume of LinkedIn requests is insane, no? Tweet Two: “Same. It’s crazy.” Tweet Three: “Like what are these folks hoping to accomplish?” Tweet Four: “Sooooo bad…I’ve just started ignoring the entire platform altogether.”
One of the built-in frustrations of traveling is deciding how to use odd bits of time. Let’s say you have an afternoon flight on the day you’re scheduled to fly home. You’ll probably want to allow plenty of time to get to the airport, especially if you aren’t familiar with local traffic patterns in the
Remember the scene in Jerry Maguire where Tom Cruise urges Cuba Gooding’s character, Rod Tidwell, to lose his cocky attitude and get back to playing football for the love of the game—not for the money. “Help me help you,” Maguire begs Tidwell. As Tidwell’s sports agent, Maguire knocks himself out to help the athlete leverage
What’s the point of travel if not to imagine another life or make a few memories? If the strongest links to memory are taste and smell, then there’s no better place to get to know a new locale than a bakery on a sleepy Sunday morning—my favorite day of the week for exploring. Beyond pastries
On the second day of my Greater Boston tour, I awoke to a gentle rain. How surprising to learn that Boston’s gray skies, brilliant leaves and wet sidewalks are similar to autumn weather conditions back home in Indiana. This may sound obvious, but if you go in November, bring rain and winter gear—galoshes, gloves,