Author: Tara
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Historical Elections
Well, it has been announced officially – President Trump – will lead our country for the next four years. WTH???? When he announced his candidacy, I honestly thought it was a joke. It appeared that all throughout his campaign, he felt the same. No one that I know ever imagined that it would ever become…
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Words
In light of the soon to be barrage of news reports on today’s election results, I thought I would write a little post about words. It is a title and topic that came to mind a while back, but I had not quite decided what to say. In considering the past 18 months of campaigning by…
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Overly Competitive
As the weather is cooling down now in the UAE, more and more activities are happening outside. I have written before about my running group I joined filled mostly with moms, but they accept this non-child lady. 😉 Anyway, a while back one of them asked me why I do not sign up for a…
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Scheduled or Spontaneous?
It is always amazing to me how long it takes to recover from busyness, travel or any upset to a routine. I often wonder if it is an age thing or if it is perhaps more of a statement on the toll of having structure; in other words, perhaps life should really be a bit…
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New, new, new
It is a new month, new moon (by a day or two) and lots of “new” going on around here. October ended with a bit of craze, but it was good to highlight some of the areas in which I need to be careful to not get burnt out with all that I am doing.…
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“Busy” vs busy
It has been a busy couple of days. So much so that I totally forgot about writing yesterday – also because my “screen time” routine has been unsynced due to my usual locale for such work being out of Internet commission. 🙁 Being the creature of habit and liking things to be “perfect” that I…
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Business Update
I realized that I have never really explained properly here what I have chosen to do with my life since quitting. I think I said I would update later and then never did as our lives have been on a bit of a roller coaster since I quit working full-time. Therefore, let me explain. Although…
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_The Bamboo Stalk_ by Saud Al Sanousi
_The Bamboo Stalk_ by Saud Al Sanousi The October Book Club for AWN is this book. We meet next week to talk about it, but I thought I would go ahead and write about it here now that it is fresh in my mind. Unlike last month’s title, this one was so easy to…
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_King Leopold’s Ghost_ by Adam Hochschild
_King Leopold’s Ghost_ by Adam Hochschild Last month I joined the Book Club of the AWN (American Women’s Network) where I have been spending a lot of my time being active in meeting people and other things. While I never in my life expected that I would become a “book club lady”, I did…
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On the Verge
We are on the verge of insanity, of normalcy, of living, of dying…. This morning I went to have my medical done, which is one of the last major hurdles before my residence visa gets issued. I am not allowing myself to get excited just yet, but it does mean that we are nearing the…
