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Asian Trip 2018 – Bangkok

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Bangkok

Checking in for our domestic Bangkok Airways flight in the Chiang Mai airport took less than five minutes. With some time to kill, we wandered around the gate area and happened to discover a coffee shop that had paprika potato chips! (If you don’t know, paprika potato chips are one of my most favorite snacks ever.) I did my little… Read more »

Planning My 2018 Bday Trip

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Regular readers of this blog already know that I love to travel and explore new places. And that I made a promise to myself to travel as often as I could once I recovered from the shock of being diagnosed with a rare variant of melanoma, amelanotic nodular melanoma, and the excision to get it cut out. For my birthday… Read more »

Back to the Sunshine State

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I know it must feel like I’m in Florida every other week. And maybe because it’s pretty damn accurate. I’ll be heading back to South Florida next week. However, this time it’s for a wedding of a friend of mine from back in the day. She was one of my best friends when I lived in Ohio. Even though I’ve… Read more »

Here’s to 2018!

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It’s a few days into the new year and I’m still trying to get into the normal routine. Between my long weekend in Ohio and the Florida road trip, my life has definitely veered from the ordinary for the last couple of weeks. We had a great time in Florida: hanging out in Orlando at a very nice resort (discounted… Read more »

3 Year Excision Anniversary

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It’s been 3 years to the day since I had my excision. It doesn’t seem possible. But it’s been 3 years since cancer was cut from my leg. While I’ve had a number of bullet holes from various biopsies (including a big old circle from my most recent one), so far, I’ve managed to avoid having another excision. I could… Read more »

Happy Birthday to Me

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Yesterday was my birthday and it was a time of fun, but also reflection. I woke up thinking that this time last year – things were so different. I was still waking up in the same bed, same room but I was waking up a year older, a year wiser, a year sadder, and a year different than the person… Read more »