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I have said it before and I will say it again: trust the process, whatever is meant to be, everything is happening for us.

I keep coming back to that mantra.

Every single week, something happens that makes me feel all the feels.

A plan falls through and something better shows up.

We wander somewhere we weren’t supposed to go ...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a concept that I stumbled across a few years ago.

It’s the idea that there are three things we’re all navigating in life: time, health, and wealth.

And the very cruel irony is that most of us never have all three at the same time.

In your 20’s , you have time and health but have less money. I...

Just as I sat down to write this, I decided to look back at my first article in what I am calling the “Adventures in Recalibration” series.

I wrote that first one the day we were leaving for Portugal, and the back story (you can read it

Years ago, when my grandmother was passing away, I had one last visit with her.

I had always loved and admired her. She was an incredible human.

In the later years of her life, she had written her story (with the help of my cousin), and it was a remarkable one.

In it, she shared about life in pre-war Germany, the beautiful story of meeting my gra...

I can’t believe I’m writing the last one of these “travel debriefs/ diaries” for Portugal!

Fifty -four days. Over seven weeks in Portugal.

When we started, a month in Lisbon felt like it was going to be so long! And it felt bold. Now it feels like we barely scratched the surface.

So this was our final few days in the Eastern Algarve, and they we...