Author: Tara
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Sleepless in AD?
It has not happened yet, but I can feel the pattern beginning. Last night, I fell asleep peacefully around 10pm, woke up a little here and there, but suddenly at 11:44pm, I was awake. My mind began to move with thoughts and tinges of worry. We have given our two months notice for the apartment.…
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Panic Contagion
As I hope it is apparent by now, I am fascinated by the human condition. It amazes me what people do, think and instigate. Being someone who stays pretty calm most of the time, but is also greatly affected by the energy of others, I am often in an observatory mode when around other people…
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A Short Presence
For a while now we have been doing Airbnb with one of our rooms in our over-sized apartment. It is a way of making some extra money and also making use of the space. In previous years, I hosted guests on Couchsurfing. However, it is more difficult in this country to Couchsurf, but recently the…
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In the Quieting…
Things are starting to slow down a little bit or at least wind down with Ramadan coming soon and the summer life here in the desert. It is both good and bad. The good is that I will have a bit more free time to work on some other projects. I have a few lined…
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Yearly Fujairah Weekend
Ever since we met in 2014 we have taken a yearly trip to Fujairah as a getaway weekend. I remember our first one fondly as it was when we were just getting our hearts around the idea that love was in the air. Each year when we return, we re-connect and re-kindle the flames of…
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TWWs
It has been a slow exercise week. I am struggling a bit in getting myself into a proper workout routine outside of the yoga sessions. Perhaps I will be able to find some focus after we get away this weekend. I did try a new sequence used by the Ashtanga primary series via YouTube, which…
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Podcast Fav 11: Waking Up with Sam Harris
I became aware of Sam Harris through the Mindfulness Summit in 2015. He struck me as incredibly intelligent and as someone who would not choose a way of life without thorough study of it. When I first started on the podcasts, I started listening to Waking Up and found it fascinating. If you crave intellectual…
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Excellence and Standards….
One of the distinct differences I have encountered since living on the other side of the world and in a culture equally foreign is our approach to adversity. The Western (or American) mind that I grew up with is that obstacles are immovable and we need to innovate how to overcome them either on our…
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To BE a Writer One Must Write!
This is my regular dilemma in life – I want to write and yet I do not write what I want to write or do not write enough. While I claim it is time, which it is, it is also discipline, focus and drive. If I were driven enough, surely I would have completed my…
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Oops and Never Agains….
Well, oops is that I missed yesterday! So, I have a couple of never agains…, or maybe not any time soon. First, I do not think I will be drinking more than a glass or two of alcoholic beverages ever again. I seem to not be able to digest it even and my stomach has…
