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• Getting Rid of Your Things

  By Julie Callahan on July 21, 2016 • ( 9 )

  If you’re like me, you built up your possessions over time—deliberately. I love to cook and bought a deep fryer for my once-a-year foray into fried zucchini blossoms, purchased the supplies to cross-stitch a Christmas stocking for each of our… Read More ›

• A Peek Inside My Suitcase

  By Julie Callahan on July 14, 2016 • ( 19 )

  

  Last May, I arrived in Paris with one suitcase large enough to transport Jimmy Hoffa’s body, a smaller and more practical backpack for everything which didn’t fit in the suitcase, and an even smaller–but highly impractical–computer backpack. (Impractical only because… Read More ›

• Health, Unsolicited Advice, and Taking Control

  By Julie Callahan on July 8, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

  I’m confused. When people hear about our lives, they feel compelled to impart a bit of wisdom– like this pearl from a new acquaintance: “Whatever you do, don’t drop dead in Europe. My friend did that and his wife had… Read More ›

• How We Decided on Full-Time Travel

  By Julie Callahan on July 1, 2016 • ( 6 )

  For a while I called us nomads until my son said, “That sounds weird mom. Don’t say that.” And I must admit, even to me it sounded a bit too Karen Blixen meets Maasai warrior. Now I say, “We’re full… Read More ›

• The World in Between: A blog for the no longer young

  By Julie Callahan on June 24, 2016 • ( 41 )

  

  I’m back, yet I’m not back. Five years ago, my son Ryan dreamed up the title of this blog and it was good. Over the years, I deviated from the intent: I wrote about travel (Three Days in Philadelphia or… Read More ›