I recently spent a few days on a homestay with a nomadic family in a ger in Western Mongolia as part of Unquote Travel’s Golden Eagle Festival tour and so many people have asked me about the experience I thought I’d write about it here.  We were in Western Mongolia for the Golden Eagle Festival, […]

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This morning I went for a walk on the beach at my mom’s river house, where I’ve been staying while waiting to close (or not close) on my own river house a few miles away. Most days, I spend a few minutes on the ever smaller beach (thanks, climate change!) looking for the smoothest, roundest, […]

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“This is the call I never like to make,” said my realtor. “The septic failed.” Those are definitely not words you want to hear a week before your closing, and just before a holiday weekend. By now I was supposed to be moved into my new place, spending Labor Day laboring on garden projects or […]

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Since the beginning of this pandemic shutdown, I’ve been doing the same thing every day, like so many of you have. Nothing much has changed for me, day to day, since everything changed earlier this year. Coffee, computer, garden, walk, laundry, tv, sleep. Maybe a podcast or a zoom in there somewhere. There’s no FOMO […]

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