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 November 29, 2020

Home Reveal & Fall In Florida

As of Wednesday, almost everything has been ticked off the ‘to do’ list on the remodel. Well, not everything—but enough so that the house is comfortable and the contractors are gone. We had a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, including being back in the house, the weather cooling off, and the fact that […]

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Categories : Florida
Tags : Fall in Florida
 September 14, 2020

Meditations For Living In A Troubled World

A devastating wildfire raged two miles from our home in Ashland, Oregon last week. A swath of burned rubble extends almost 20 miles north, smoke still blankets the valley, and some of our closest friends are displaced. In Portland and Bend, our family and friends are suffering from the effects of nearby wildfires and are […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings
 August 31, 2020

Digging Out Of Overwhelm

I‘ve had big plans of writing about our last summer’s adventures for many months now. But life keeps getting in the way. Every day, I look at an index card propped up by my computer. It says, “How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard.” As I push […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 July 19, 2020

Sweltering In Place

Thank you, dear friends, for your great kindness in the loving and supportive comments you left in honor of my dad. During this time when we’ve not been able to gather with family and friends to celebrate my dad’s life and mourn his passing, your words have brought me comfort and lifted my spirits. I […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 June 20, 2020

Saying Goodbye To My Dad

I lost my beloved father on May 1st. He was 91 years old, but I wasn’t ready for him to go. If you had known my dad, you wouldn’t have wanted to lose him, either. The past few weeks have been hard. Harder than I imagined. From the moment of my sister’s call—”Daddy’s gone“—I feel […]

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Categories : Aging Parents, Florida, Musings
 April 26, 2020

Fireflies, Flamingos, And Other Florida Delights

Several nights ago, Eric called me outside. A gentle breeze from the bay rustled through the palmettos, the intoxicating scent of jasmine filled the air, and the woods were alive with hundreds of tiny dancing lights. I haven’t seen fireflies in such numbers since I was a kid. Ordinarily, we hightail it out of here […]

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Categories : Florida
Tags : Flamingos, flamingos in Florida, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
 April 11, 2020

Surviving A Pandemic

Never in a million years did I think I would be writing a blog post about surviving a pandemic. But here we are. And although I’m an optimist by nature (and determination), I fear that we’re in for a long ride. We’re one week into our stay-at-home orders in Florida, but we started our own […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 April 3, 2020

Living In The Unknown

This morning, my first thought upon awakening was, “Wow, THAT was a wild nightmare.” And then I remembered that this is reality—the world, as we know it, has essentially come to a standstill. The Best Laid Plans… If all had gone according to plan, we would have been on the road last week. We would […]

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Categories : Aging Parents, Florida, Musings, Reality RV
 March 23, 2020

The Peace of Wild Things

These are difficult times. Surreal. Like everyone else we know, we’re trying to find balance in a world that has suddenly been turned upside down. Our travel plans have fallen prey to the pandemic, and we’re staying put in Apalachicola for who knows how long. Nature and poetry are two things that soothe my soul […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings
 June 18, 2019

Another Winter In Florida

As I’ve said before, were it not for my elderly parents in Apalachicola, we would not spend every winter in Florida. And as I’ve also said before, we’re lucky that Florida is a tropical paradise and offers so many things we enjoy—crystal clear spring-fed rivers, abundant birds, sugar sand beaches, and fresh seafood. We always […]

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Categories : Aging Parents, Florida, Georgia, Travel
Tags : Apalachicola, Cedar Key, Okefenokee, Santos Trailhead State Park, Silver River, Silver Springs, Silver Springs State Park, Stephen C. Foster State Park
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