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Getting OUR Griswold On: Day 3 – Yellow Springs, OH
Green With Envy When we were living in the Pacific Northwest, I used to chuckle every time people would visit. Because they always ended up saying, “I can’t believe how green it is here!” If I had a dime for every time I’ve uttered those words on this trip… I mean, seriously: The Black Hills…
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Getting OUR Griswold On: Day 2 – Champaign, IL
Tara has a different traveling philosophy than I do. I am very much a let’s get from Point A to Point B person. I plot out our route, calculate the mileage, add in a little cushion for the requisite stops (gas, food, rest areas), and figure out how long it will take us to arrive.…
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Getting OUR Griswold On: Day 1 – Sioux Falls
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road Echoes of the Past Tara and I hit the road this afternoon, officially kicking off a new adventure — one that has echoes of the…
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The Happiness Project
Five years ago, on my birthday, Tara gave me a little blue journal called The Happiness Project. It’s based on a self-help book by Gretchen Rubin, in which the author dedicated a year of her life to focusing on things that truly matter…and as a result, finding happiness. The book was wildly popular and spawned…
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Off to the Salt Mines
I was up dark and early this morning. Got out of bed at 4:40, which seems ungodly but is really only half an hour earlier than I get up most days anyway. I had to be at the office by 7 a.m. for a phone interview with somebody in Hartford, in the far east. I…
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Montana Medicine
Saturday, we drove three hours to Medicine Rocks State Park in Montana. Think of it as prep work for our upcoming road trip! A coworker at Ye Olde Publishing Company told me about this place last year, wooing me with pictures of cool rock formations and carvings. To say it’s off the beaten path is…
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