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• 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 ›

• Health on the Road: Committing to a Healthy Lifestyle

  By Julie Callahan on April 22, 2016 • ( 18 )

  

  Around this time of year, my blog turns to health; after all, it’s annual checkup time. Guatemala, it turns out, was a poor man’s fat camp. During three months of stairs and beans and pineapple (and avocados!), Pat lost 15… Read More ›

• An Eventful, Uneventful April in Charlottesville

  By Julie Callahan on April 17, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  We had an eventful, uneventful arrival back in Charlottesville. On the train from DC, Pat executed a flawed clean and jerk of his 50-pound suitcase to the overhead storage bin in a moving train. It ended poorly with the suitcase… Read More ›

• A Year in Retirement

  By Julie Callahan on April 8, 2016 • ( 16 )

  A year ago this week, I retired from IBM. At the time, Pat thought that I’d cry (I didn’t). That I would turn around and look back at the building (I forgot to). And that it would be a sad… Read More ›