It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In October.

Everyone knows that Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love the message, the music and the memories of my sister telling me I wasn’t getting anything under the tree from Santa in 1982 because I wasn’t acting “sisterly” when I chose not to run downstairs at her request to get her a drink and the big bag of cheese Doritos while she timed me to see if I

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I’ll be loving them…FOREVER

I know. You are all disappointed in me. I try to not to have any regret in my life life. I’m typically one hundred percent confident in the decisions I make and stand by them. But Thursday will be haunting me for a while. My friend Catherine had an extra ticket to New Kids. And I didn’t go. Because I’m an idiot. But also because I had a commitment. And

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In the words of The Sound of Music’s Mother Superior: “Climb Every Mountain”

***Note: This was a previous post that I had to move/recreate (thus comments are lost).  Sorry for any inconvenience — webMAN*** Masaa Al-Khayr (“Good Evening” in Arabic) from Petra! After waking from a restful night of three times the amount of sleep we’ve received in the last three days (AKA seven hours) we were raring to experience Petra—one of the Eight Wonders of the World (Please note, citing eight wonders

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In the words of Ruti, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Lift up your voice & sing!”

***Note: This was a previous post that I had to move/recreate (thus comments are lost).  Sorry for any inconvenience — webMAN*** “Shalom Shabbat” from Jerusalem! Today is Friday which marks our second Sabbath in the Holy Land! We’re veritable experts now. Today was anything but a day of rest, though. Ruti had half of our group up at the crack of dawn to visit the Wailing Wall (fortunately we bloggirls

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