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carey christmas
What did you want this year … and get? Drew. Oh, don’t get me wrong. Santa was pretty generous this year as usual, and even before Christmas morning I had tallied a long list of random things I’ve picked up along the way this past year, new toys, new tools, and travel souvenirs. But when
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who cares
Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025. No one cares. Hold up. Wait. Listen. Whoa: I don’t mean that in a sad-sack, pity me kind of way. What I mean is that figuring out some perspective on the attention of others is actually, factually something that has taken me decades to put into
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kiyomizu-dera
What adventure from 2025 will be forever etched upon your memory? It would be super simple sitting here less than a month after spending most of November in Japan to just write… Japan! with a huge exclamation mark and move on to the next post (heck knows these days leading in the holidays are busy
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forty nine
Describe your 2025 in terms of fitness, health, mind and body. Healing. There was a time when, privacy be damned, I’d disclose and lament any and all of my personal ailments on a blog like this… but needless to say those days are gone. It’s enough for you to know that I am now in
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the cupboard of the real
What is something you ate 25 years ago that you’d never eat now? Saying “never” is always a bit of a tall order. See, I’d like to tell you that I am not a picky eater—and I think I’d be telling the truth writing that—and that depending on the circumstances (and my mood) I’d probably