Wandering through sketchbooks, maps, neurodiversity, and the parts of the world that actually make sense to me.

120 Days Not Smoking

Today is 120 days of not smoking cigarettes. Yay me! I started smoking when I was around 15 years old, quit many times, and restarted even more times. I originally quit the day I found out I was pregnant with my first child and didn’t start again until well after

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15-Minute Ecuador Citizenship Call

I had a free call last year to learn about getting dual citizenship. I began gathering the documents, hit a giant brick wall, and gave up. I was okay with pausing the process at the time. I accepted that I had enough family tree stuff to work on and that

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Edmonton: To Go or Not to Go?

Edmonton, Canada was most definitely not on a bucket list or any list of mine. My youngest child wanted to go there to visit his girlfriend . . . in March. It didn’t sound fun to me. It sounded cold, very cold. I spent some time online learning about Edmonton

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I Am The Mallard

The other day when I was leaving a parking lot there was a mallard duck just sitting in the lane I needed to go in. It seemed odd that this duck was just sitting there with no other ducks around. This is not a spot where ducks usually just stand.

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