Recommendation: IHG® Rewards Premier Credit Card
Our central location Miami Beach hotel, two blocks from the beach, for which we paid $0 for five days using this card (combination of free nights + points). IHG® Rewards Read more…
Recommendation: Capital One Venture X card
Capital One Venture X Promotion This promotion may have ended/changed since this was posted; if what’s listed in our breakdown is different than what you see on the card website, Read more…
How my yard sign collection grew during 2020
My yard sign collection has grown over the past year — Partly due to quarantine. Partly due to racial injustice. Partly due to my Selfish Sabbatical. Partly due to new Read more…
Return From My Selfish Sabbatical
For more Selfish Sabbatical images, see end of post Links may be referral links where I may receive compensation if you purchase via the link. The doodles below are part Read more…
Live Elsewhere Experiment
For Chattanooga recommendations, scroll to end, just above photos We’re back. (I hope you’re envisioning Michael Jordan circa 1995 and his famous two-word fax…) In an effort to inject positive Read more…
2020 Life of Yes℠ Gift Guide
It’s that time of year again. Where I tell you what I love or aspire to love and you then decide if any of my loves would make a [chef’s Read more…
I’m on a Selfish Sabbatical
UPDATE: The follow up to this is here. If you ask me for anything July through August 2020, I will answer — I’ve actually been on a Selfish Sabbatical (SFSB) Read more…
GUEST POST — Travel: One is the Magic Number
This is a Guest Post by Cheese-It DeLonda Dowling. Or is it DeRhonda? Delores? Jane? (People butcher our names all the time. I often get “Sara” like I’ve misspelled my Read more…
GUEST POST: Dreams DO come true
This is a Guest Post from a Life of Yes℠ (LOY) Sleepaway Camper who joined us in Somewhere Magical a year ago. I live for updates from Cheese-Its, especially those Read more…
GUEST POST: Finding home after feeling shitty, sad, brittle and off course from any sense of purpose for too long
I had spent years hiding out from who I really was and what I was really supposed to be doing with my life and I was just tired of feeling shitty and sad and brittle and off course from any sense of purpose.