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Resolutions for 2018
I have about a hundred resolutions for the New Year zinging about my brain right now. Some are true, life-changing, capital-r, Resolutions and some are more in the realm of Goals for the Year. To me it’s all the same. Plus this is a list of stuff literally pinging around in my head. A list […]
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And so it Begins….
It’s a new era here in the US of A. We have a new president. One like we’ve never had before. One who comes from immense privilege and who reached the White House by speaking to people’s deepest fears and their most gruesome pain and promising to make it better by making others suffer instead. […]
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Kick Ass Woman Award – Re-Vote Please
So remember the Kick-Ass Woman Award that I am nominated for? Well, the poll software messed up and the votes didn’t get tallied correctly. Please go and vote again! Click on this link! Scroll to the bottom and you can see a new poll there. Please vote! I would love to actually win! 🙂 Kick-Ass […]
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Kick Ass Women Award
Guys! I’ve been nominated for a Kick Ass Women Award by SynDolly. The award serves to acknowledge the work of small-time, non-professional women bloggers like myself. “It’s about supporting women who make us smile, laugh, cry, think, feel.” I am incredibly flattered and I find myself in good company. My 4 co-finalists are: Becoming She […]
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Save the Ta-Tas!
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but taking care of your health should just happen in October. According to the Susan G. Komen Foundation there will be 246,660 new cases of breast cancer this year and 45,540 deaths due to breast cancer. The earlier you can catch breast cancer the easier it is to cure […]
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Moving is Complicated
It’s been 5 weeks since we left Switzerland for America. First we went to Minnesota for a blissful time with Mark’s parents before Mark had to go back to the reality of DC and work and I drove down to Iowa with the kids to visit my parents and wait for our stuff to arrive […]
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Prince is Dead. Long live Prince.
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today  To get through this thing called life Electric word life It means forever and that’s a mighty long time But I’m here to tell you There’s something else The after-world A world of never ending happiness  You can always see the sun, day or night Prince […]
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The Swiss Family Carlson Searches for the Loch Ness Monster
This is Part 4 in our visit to Scotland. Over here you can find our visits to Part 1: Edinburgh Castle, Part 2: JK Rowling’s Scotland, and Part 3: Hadrian’s Wall. It’s almost a Scooby Doo title, isn’t it? But for us there was no mystery to solve and no Great Dane with the munchies, […]
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The Conclusion to Swiss Family Carlson House Hunter’s International
When we left them, the Carlson family had to choose from between a row house in a hamlet outside of Basel that was close to school; a charming duplex in the city with lots of space and close to a wonderfully huge park; and a quirky apartment in the heart of Old Town. And which […]
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Noticings
A few more noticings about Basel. * Everyone “dresses” here. I feel like I have to dress up a bit or dress up nicer than soccer shorts, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes. I have been putting on actual coordinating outfits, doing my hair, and been wearing earrings and lipstick. I’ve been fighting urges to swipe […]
Mindy Carlson 