June 2020: Share Four Somethings.

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camp fradd, family, fiction, friends, fun, my darling love, quotes, reading, reflection, travel

“I was faced with a dilemma …A
I could either wrestle with my life …
Or I could plunk myself down right in the middle of the mess and realize that the mess is actually my life, the only one I’ll ever get, the one I’m in danger of missing completely, waiting around for fantastic.”

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

Romance – Camp Fradd Style

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1000gifts, adventures, beer, blessings, family, gratitude, holiday, local flavor, marriage, movies, my darling love, sickness, story, tavern, Valentine’s Day, wife-of-the-year

Valentine’s Day was low-key at Camp Fradd this year. We’re in the process of a move, in addition to the medical issues we’ve faced this year.

Me: What do you want for Valentine’s Day this year?

Jay: To just take you out to dinner, and you to be happy with nothing more.

Me: Throw in a giant card and you’ve got a deal.

Direction – Looking Back to Move Forward

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2019 lists, adventures, bullet journal, concerts, family, hiking, journaling, my darling love, project, scotland, storytelling, west highland way, writing

In reviewing 2019 and looking forward to 2020 (the year of my 40th birthday!), I’ve considered what direction I want to take my writing. Seasonal fatigue mixed with stress about moving to a new house (if just up the street), has left me with not much energy to devote to writing. Then I got the flu, which I’m still recovering from.

Here’s to October

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books, concerts, fun, halloween, holiday, learning, monthiversaries, my darling love, reading

The leaves are finally starting to turn here in my corner of the Smoky Mountains. As we wrap up the month of October, I wanted to share a few of my favorites this month.

Musical Vacation Memories

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hiking, music, scotland, songs, travel, west highland way

Anyone who ever sat with a tape deck trying to record a song off the radio understands the power of the perfect song. Jay and I have several “vacation” songs that never fail to make us smile. We crank up the volume and remember the events surrounding us hearing the song, but more importantly the context of the particular vacation where we heard the song.

Back – The Scottish Remix

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adventures, free-writing, journaling, local flavor, quotes, scotland, writing

Me: No matter what the Five Minute Friday
prompt is, I’m gonna make it work for writing about my #Scotland trip

Prompt: BACK

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Preparing for Our Scotland Adventure

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books, cozy mysteries, non-fiction, reading, scotland, travel

Fresh off of Camp McFradd’s hop across the pond – Scotland in general and the West Highland Way specifically – I thought I’d share a bit of the homework that went into our journey.

4 Quick Stories about Visiting Scotland

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books, quotes, scotland, travel

I’m going a bit rogue this month for my Share Four Somethings contribution. While Heather encourages those who join in to share about things from the current month, I’m going to stretch the rules and share about my trip to Scotland instead. We left the United States on July 19th and returned on August 4th, so at least part of the trip happened in August.

The Big Finish and a New Start

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adventures, planning, project, scotland, travel, writing

If you finish a big project and forget to tell the world, did it really happen?

Vacation Prep and Other June Excitement

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books, free-writing, goals, gratitude, project, training, travel, writing

The end of my birth-month nears, and I want to spend a little time looking back. What did the last days of my 38th year and the first of my 39th bring? I’m linking up with Heather to Share Four Somethings about June, aka the best month on the calendar to be born.