This year my birthday was weird. Not because of anyone else--totally because of me. Usually I insist on a week-long (at least) extravaganza involving travel and excess. In that respect, I suppose I was on track-- we really considered my tagging along for the fiance's work trip to be my big birthday affair. But here's the thing; …
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Mid-Year Review: New Year’s Resolutions
New Year's resolutions. How many of us keep them? Not me--I don't think I've even tried all that hard to be diligent. Until this year! I am making something out of 2013--it's the last year in my 20s, the last (almost entire) year I'm single, and the beginning of a new way of living life. …
Local Adventures: Cleveland’s West Side
You may recall I made a commitment to exploring my own backyard through a series of planned 'local adventures.' I would like to say I just had a great deal of initiative to learn more about Northeast Ohio (which has turned out to be much more interesting that you might think!), but in reality we've …
Study Abroad: How Setting Expectations and A Little Kindness Can Go a Long Way
A month or so ago a colleague and I were speaking with a graduate student from Iran about how she ended up studying and conducting research at a couple of universities in the mid-west. She was the most wonderful, bubbly, likable person I've met in some time, but our conversation took a bit of a …
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Artsy, Active Weekend of Photography and Local Adventures
This ended up being a really productive weekend. We crossed a bunch of travel and wedding planning items off the list Saturday, including the fiance taking a camera class for our brand new Canon EOS 60D, an early wedding present from my parents (AMAZING!) Between the class and the gobs of reading he's done online, …
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Motorcycle Diary: Local Trip to Millersburg, Ohio
Thanks to the headline of an article I caught in the Akron Beacon Journal about a brewery opening in the middle of Amish country, our first motorcycle trip of the season was born. An Amish brewery? We had to check it out. It was a beautiful weekend and the perfect time to get our motorcycles …
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Rocking the Resolutions
This past month I was able to complete a couple more ideas from my New Year's resolutions list and actually cross off one goal altogether! Mentioning it on the blog is more for my accountability than your interest, so apologies. The two items I recently tackled from my list are: Take part in at least …
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