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• Happiness is …

  By Julie Callahan on September 7, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang sang a song when I was young: Happiness is finding a pencil. Pizza with sausage. Tying your shoes for the very first time. Lately, I’ve thought a lot about happiness. If you are considering… Read More ›

• La Rentrée… Home to Paris

  By Julie Callahan on September 5, 2017 • ( 9 )

  My French teacher was explaining the various verbs that translate as ‘to return.’ She told us that retourner constitutes a return to any place: school, the library, a country. But rentrer is reserved for that special place. She placed her… Read More ›

• Continued… Questions from new nomads

  By Julie Callahan on August 31, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

    For those of you interested in nomadic life, my last post contains the first 5 Q&As from a pair of  nomadic friends. You may want to check that out. If you have questions of your own, please ask them… Read More ›

• 10 Questions from New Nomads (Pt 1)

  By Julie Callahan on August 25, 2017 • ( 5 )

  A newly nomadic couple, half my age, asked me their top 10 questions on how to adjust to their new life and make it both do-able and sustainable. Here’s part one: the first 5…

• Mont Saint Michel, France

  By Julie Callahan on August 20, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  Shortly before midnight, I crawled into bed and pulled the comforter up to my chin. The sea breeze billowed the curtains. Other than the drone of the wind and an occasional squawk from a gull, silence. Blackness finally erased an… Read More ›