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Reflections on 2024 and looking ahead to 2025
Reminiscing on my year at New Year's Eve has become one of my favorite traditions to do–– to reflect and appreciate 2024's triumphs,...

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More Than Spinning Wheels
A feature article on the unexpected and fortuitous moments one can have when bicycle touring


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Reflections on 2023 and looking ahead to 2024
Another year gone by, another December thinking about my New Year's resolutions/intentions. I had written a post much like this in 2022,...


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New kinds of adventure, featuring a scavenger hunt proposal!
We had the weekend booked in our calendar: "Erin + Uri weekend", meaning, we would not make any plans with anyone else, for once. But, we...


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What even is this thing called moderation
Moderation and I are not close friends. Maybe familiar acquaintances, at best. I'd have to think a minute to give you an actual example...


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Scientific storytelling
When my conference had optional lunch seminars to attend, I quickly sought out Scientific Storytelling. As a hobby bloggist and...


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Reflections following disaster
It was 10:30 PM, and the roads were damp. We were driving home from Ithaca, and the streets were empty for a Friday night. I was...


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Calendar adventures
I adore planners, calendars, multi-colored pens and highlighters, and the act of writing and crossing off to-do list items. Yes, I'm that...


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Discovering the best thing a person could ever take on an adventure
One year ago today... My Google photos alerted me, with a curated gallery slideshow, of my activities from 1 year ago. This time 365 days...


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"You are crazy", my mom on polar bear plunging
If you google polar bear plunging, you will see hundreds of people half-dressed, of all ages, standing on a frigid bank and running into...


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One year of blogging!
In 2021, I contemplated starting a blog, but I had no idea what I would say or what it would even look like. As an introvert whose...

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"I'm too old to do things like that"
This is a particular phrase that has stuck with me for a while now after I heard someone express it. My immediate thought was I am never...

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Reflections on 2022 and looking ahead to 2023
At the end of the year, I like to look back and reminisce about my last 365 days. Three-hundred and sixty five. It feels like an eternity...


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On sunlight and completing big things
Email sent! The final notice I am given, formally alerting me that the semester had concluded. But, my brain has a hard time switching...


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Keeping the creativity alive
It suggests that creativity is at risk of dying, if it hasn't already. Perhaps that's a little more dramatic than it needs to be, but...
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