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7 Hours In Aruba

We honeymooned from 6/25 – 7/7 in Bonaire, South America.. it’s a small island that is part of the Dutch Antilles. (Part of the “ABC” islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao). It was really a beautiful trip. We started out in Newark and flew direct to Aruba, where we had a 7 hour layover. In those 7 hours, we rented a car and drove around the little island of Aruba (it took us all of 20 …

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Anam Cara – The Friend of Your Soul

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul love; “Anam Cara” may sound like some new French perfume, but it actually refers to the Celtic spiritual belief of souls connecting and bonding . In Celtic Spiritual tradition, it is believed that the soul radiates all about the physical body what some refer to as an aura. When you connect …

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Nervous About Flying.. Me?

So, yea… in about 9 hours, I’ll be on a plane headed towards Austin to do my part at SXSW Interactive. If you’ve been reading me for any amount of time, you all know that I would rather peel my fingernails off and dip my fingers in salt water than get on a plane and fly anywhere. Somehow, I manage. I think it’s the 3 Benadryl’s with a Martini chaser that gets me through. As …

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Be Mine

This new pinkness is the extent of my celebration of the ‘overly commercialized day of the year when you are supposed to let the ones you love know how much you love them, because doing it the other 364 days a year just isn’t good enough‘ holiday – otherwise known as Valentine’s Day. Oooo.. do I sound jaded? A girl with, perhaps, too few valentine’s in her life? Nah. When everyday is valentine’s day – …

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Smelly Christmas

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I did! The gifts from my honey, and my kids, are going to make for a very smelly and relaxing New Year for me! My hair will be happy, I will have happy feet, happy skin and a happy nose. Merry Feet: One of foot bath/spa things One of these foot massagers Some of this Aveda Foot Relief stuff A bunch of products from Bath & Body …

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