What day is it? Last week, I posted my first ‘weekly’ version of this series. I realized that I was repeating myself too often and felt that it was time to move to a less frequent approach to the chronicle of my quarantine experiences. Today focuses on Sparkling Isolation Days 144 – 150. This week …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 54
Some day. Mother’s Day always makes me melancholy. My mother died in 2003 and since then this holiday has become a reminder of what was lost. Oh, I know that we are always told to celebrate the memory and to focus on the good times we had. That sound lovely in theory, right? It’s not …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 39
April showers. Today has been a cold, wet, rather gloomy day. In the past, during spring months when the weather can be so changeable and so often dismal like this, I have been able to cheer myself up through social connections – going out to the gym for a great workout, visiting the Art Institute …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 25
Don’t borrow trouble. I remember my mother using that phrase frequently and today I needed to remember her pithy advice. I have always had a rather pessimistic view of life. I won’t bore anyone with the details of all my childhood traumas that helped create this negative view of life, but my negativity bias is …
The Local Tourist is 2018 Top 20 Travel Blog in the World
The Local Tourist is the 19th top travel blog in the world for 2018, according to Everything-Everywhere.com. The site, run by world-renowned photographer and travel writer Gary Arndt, ranked more than 250 websites.
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