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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Lake Como, Italy
Lake Como: A glittering lake at the foot of the Swiss Alps, dotted with iconic little island towns, churches, sailboats, and eateries. A wealthy woman’s playground, and a poor traveler’s heaven.
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Nights in Prague
What I remember most about Prague is it being an eerie, cold, hard-nosed type of place. Rainy, empty streets; old architecture mixed in with the industrial new, castles and accents and languages far from my understanding. It’s one of those places I would never want to go through this life…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Why Running is Awesome
“You run? Like for fun? I don’t know how you do it bro.” This is a pretty typical reaction runners get form outsiders. By outsiders, we mean those that don’t understand our obsession; those that don’t drink the kool-aid in the form of a 6 a.m. run on a Sunday…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdom: F*ck It
Sorry about my absence, folks! I know I haven’t been too consistent with my posts the last few months or so. I’m doing my best to stay on top of things, but life’s been throwing me some major curveballs lately. When it rains, it really does seem to pour –…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdom: Go with the flow
I’m a big advocator of going with the flow. Not in a lazy way, or as a surrender to my situation and surroundings. In my opinion, going with the flow doesn’t mean giving up – it means having enough faith to lean in. The cold, hard truth is that we…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: Germany Wanderlust
Traveling is my favorite thing on the planet. I will forgo food, fun, a cold beer, a good nights’ sleep, basically anything you could imagine to save up for a trip. Traveling makes me fall in love with every place I go, learn so much about the world, and appreciate…
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Continue reading →: Wednesday Wisdoms: Heartbreak’s Silver Lining
Heartbreak is a scary thing. It hides in the back of our minds, even in our happiest moments; it leaves cuts so deep that we feel as if we’ll never heal. And, against all odds, when we do – it leaves behind its telltale scars. Scars we can carry with…
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Continue reading →: Travel Tuesday: An Aerial View of Prague, Czech Republic
“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo…
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Continue reading →: Motivation Monday: Starting Fresh!
Wake up, wake up it’s the first of the month… Today’s a big day of firsts – the first of the month, of course, but also a Monday (the first of the week) and Labor Day, which is the first day of the brand spankin’ new semester. In short, today’s…
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I’m Nicole
Navigating motherhood, nourishing cooking, backyard gardening and running a small business with my little ohana on Oahu, Hawaii. Follow me as we build a suburban homestead, (try to) bake bread and steadily work towards a grown-at-home hale – all while intentionally raising kiddos and keeping our business growing.
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