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About This Blog

You need a social media presence!

That phrase can send shivers down the spine of someone who misses analog photography, still has a CD player, and reads books off-screen! However, years ago, an editor told me just that. So against my nature, I decided to self-promote.

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Fall, Once Again!

Fall, Once Again!

Fall is the season that makes you want to crash in front of the TV, read books, and listen to your favorite audiobooks and playlists. It is the perfect excuse to indulge in behavior such as baking more-than-good-for-you cakes, muffins, and cookies, even now, with the current stomach-turning price levels for electricity and food…

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Return to Happiness

Return to Happiness

Life can be a rotten deal sometimes, but that does not mean everything in your life has been bad, even if it feels like that when you are neck-deep in a situation that seems only to be getting worse by the minute. When life is like that, one of the remedies to stay happy can be the psychological trick of an emotional and visual return to happy moments. It is the same as when you fix your computer by returning to the last point where it worked.

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We Don’t Live in Paradise.

We Don’t Live in Paradise.

Finding a decent place to live can be and most often is a horrid ordeal in European capitals and big cities, for foreigners and natives alike. And even if you pay sky-high rent, it does not assure that your place is legal or warm in the winter. Some of my former apartments in Paris felt and looked as if they came with the cast of La Bohème and a prescription for tuberculosis!

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