Tag: XFE
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How Is Summer Almost Over?
Whelp, it’s finally here. Sheryll’s Solo Summer (SSS) is coming to an end next week, as my schmoopies-for-life comes back from his sabbatical taking care of his father. It truly has been a long three months. And a lot of physical and emotional work for my beloved XFE in the midst of an unprecedented heat…
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Life and Mountain Laurel in West Virginia
Whew. It’s been a long-ass six (or seven?) months since my last post. Not like a whole second global pandemic long, but not too far off the mark. For the last – gosh, I want to say, for 10(!?) months — my lovable and wonderful non-husband, XFE has been dealing with aging family members’ health…
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Can’t We Just Stay in Our Bubble?
It’s official – COVID lockdown has ended. I know this because I’m pretty sure we were the last holdouts and we have finally loosened up our protocols. We are no longer sheltering in place, just the two of us and the cats. We’ve slowly peeked our heads out of our collective shells and gradually started…
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How to Deal with Freelancing Uncertainty Explained via Vanderpump Rules GIFs
I feel like a broken record, but hey there. I know, I know. I’ve been MIA in the blogging world. Well, I am contributing to blogs, but they’ve been on behalf of clients. Not this blog. This blog has been neglected, like a lonely, unwanted redheaded stepchild. Which is part of the “problem” and a…
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How to Have an Amazing Birthday
My 45th birthday was a couple of months ago, so I’ve had some time to really think about this. Be born. Done, easy, check. (OK, this one is going to take a while.) Find a life partner as fabulous as XFE. Took me about, ummmm, 34 years and a couple of failed attempts. Agree to…
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What I Learned About Africa the First Time Around (and Why We’re Going Back)
I uttered what I think might go down in history as the most bougie phrase ever known to mankind last week. “Weeeeell, last time we were in Africa, we stayed at…..” I said it not once, but TWICE while catching up with friends, both of whom probably immediately regretted asking me what big exciting trip…
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Her Take! Tea at Sketch, London
(If you haven’t read His Take on tea at Sketch, you should definitely do so first. This is my response to that post.) I cannot lie: I like tea. Some of my very fondest memories of my time in England were of having tea. It was everywhere. The minute you walked into a home or…
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His Take! Tea at Sketch, London
(AKA: The great British treat of extended pinkies and wasted afternoons.) (Editor’s note: This post was written by XFE. Check back on Monday for the MUCH shorter “Hers” version of our tea at Sketch.) This post is most likely a bad idea and will get me in trouble. But somewhere during a very lovely afternoon spent…
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Football Friday: That 10 Minutes When Spurs Were Top of the League
Editor’s note: We’ve been doing something a little different on ThePoeLog this past month. You could say it was in honor of the Euro Cup. Or the Copa Cup. Or the Poe Cup (not a real thing. YET.) But today is the last of our “Football Friday” posts. The first one can be found here, the second one here,…