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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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weekend wrap, seventeen
Ahh… one short. This should have been my eighteenth weekend wrap. How crazy would have that worked out!? I have been feeling all the feels this last week because as I write this my daughter is off to school on her eighteenth birthday. All grown up and my legal obligations as a parental unit caregiver
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One Hundred (Incredible) Years
I found myself in a local drugstore this weekend, standing in the greeting card aisle, picking out a birthday card. The selection was limited. Limited, not because the store was lacking in birthday cards, but because there was only one option with the correct age number printed on the front: 100. While we’ve spoken on