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Tag Archives: Perspective
The Noticing Traveler: Seeing beyond the Guidebook in Mexico City
Let your guidebook lead you to the hot spots, then be alert to unexpected glimpses; depths you never dreamed of. Continue reading
Relocating: How Do I Choose the Clothes and Accessories to Bring?
What happened was that styles changed, my body shape changed, and things like high heels — for me — were not the kind of shoes I could navigate in on cobblestone streets and broken sidewalks. I had gorgeous snakeskin and eel skin bags and matching shoes — which, since I kept them — simply dried out without the joy of my wearing them to death. Continue reading
Best Way to Travel? Feed Your Passion for the Unusual!
There are always a goodly number of fascinating people and events from any given place. And there are local people keeping those histories alive who love sharing those stories. Find them and visit their troves. Continue reading
Posted in Guest Blog Posts, Heart Song, Travel Tips and Insight, Women's Work
Tagged Contributions of women, Happiness, Perspective, Travel, vacation
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Behind Closed Doors
“So,” I continued, “it’s not that you have lost interest in sex; it’s that you’ve lost interest in sex with your husbands.” Continue reading
The Cyprus Crisis
For the first time, depositors have found out that tax havens and places where the deposit interest rates are higher than that the norm are no longer secure. Some depositors will be losing up to 80% of their money. It’s madness. Continue reading
Posted in All Things Financial, Guest Blog Posts
Tagged Finance, Greece, International Experts, Perspective
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Honor, Respect and a Purple Eggplant
All the hotels I could afford were locked tight and my only option was to beg and bribe a watchman to let me stay in the stairwell behind iron gates. Continue reading
Flaws I’m Forced to Accept
Something horrible happened a few weeks into my marriage. My tall husband discovered dust on top of the refrigerator and I was smacked in the face with the horrifying reality that eventually everything in the house would get dirty, and I was the designated cleaner. I did not face this reality gracefully. Continue reading
Aging to Be Me
I’ve earned the right to be wrong; I don’t question myself as much as in days gone by. I no longer strive to be a controlling force over every outcome. Continue reading
How I Created My Location Independent Lifestyle
Less than three years later, at 36, I retired from the law. Our savings hit our magic number. We took the risk, sold everything, including our beloved Mini Cooper, and left the US. Continue reading
Domestic Medical Tourism
We had hoped to make ourselves more “known” to the uninsured population requiring surgery, but primarily wanted to expose the price-fixing arrangements between hospitals and insurance groups. The first thing that happened, however, shocked us. Canadians started calling. And then flying to Oklahoma City for their surgery. Continue reading
