Category: Second Chapters
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Five Years a Nomad
FIVE YEARS. Five years as a nomad from a creature of habit and familiarity. Five Years a Nomad. Divorce, Empty Nest, Pandemic, Mid-Life, 50s. The Perfect Storm! This is extraordinary to me. I was the ultimate creature of habit, routines, and familiarity. I chose to live at home and go to UC Santa Barbara so…
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2024 Year End Book Review
Books – Fourth Quarter Review 2024 – the Autumn Edition I managed to read a total of 46 books this year – on Audible, my Kindle, and many many “real” books! On Tubes, in pubs, on trains, planes, curled up on sofas, laying in bed, poolside, at the beach… oh to read a book! What…
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THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
“The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK…
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2024 3rd quarter Book Review
Books – Third Quarter Review 2024 – the Summer Edition Most of this period was back “home” in California, visiting family, staying with my parents in the shadow of my family home where Ex and T2 reside, organizing and packing/repacking in my storage unit. But I found time for my beloved books! Summer Reading The…
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Books – Second Quarter Review 2024 –
Books – The Spring Edition 2024 The year’s already half done! I read another ten books in these past three months. This nomadic lifestyle, and being away from my usual California car culture, has given me more time to read. On my Kindle (I especially enjoy when the lighting is dim). My Audible (walking, and…
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DUBLIN, IRELAND
NUMEROUS TRIPS TO DUBLIN Updated post: Dublin – October 2025 Train from Belfast to Dublin. Kicked off the day with two film meetings. One for coffee at Dublin Castle, the second drinks at my fave Cafe en Seine. My two Ireland based projects come to life. I spent so much time here with my son and…
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JOURNEY TO JAMAICA
JOURNEY TO JAMAICA Jamaica – and the One Year Anniversary of Launching my Blog February 2023, after spending the holidays in rainy California with my family, the Rogue (my post divorce traveling companion) and I craved some sunshine before heading back to the U.K. Cut to nearly three weeks in the Jamaica sun! (And challenges…
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BOOKS – FIRST QUARTER 2024
I’ve continued my obsession with reading, with a number of books on the go – on Audible, on my Kindle, and a number of “real” books, generally a juicy fiction one, and a “self-help”. Still reading lots of “divorce memoirs” and others on loss and healing. It’s an ongoing process! SELF HELP/DIVORCE MEMOIRS FEAR LESS…
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Blogging from Bahamas
The One Year Anniversary of Launching my Blog Bahamas February 2023 Three years as a nomad, post pandemic, post divorce, I’m still traveling with my Scottish companion “the Rogue”. To avoid more of a cold winter, we once again decided to stop in the Caribbean in route to the UK from California. First Jamaica, then…
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LIFE IN STORAGE – Packing up, London bound!
December 2025 – Now it has been six years since the “last Christmas” which I then packed away into my new storage unit. SIX YEARS! And I’m still going. MARCH 3, 2024 It has been four years with my life in storage, in a 10×10 aluminum facility. Never dreamed when I got my empty unit…