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What to Do When You Discover the Best
This piece builds on the Pleasure Profile writing. You might read those first if you're so inclined. Today marks two weeks in Mexico. Today I bought a pendant - the one I’m wearing in this photo....
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How Does Travel Serve the Work?
Alison Gresik writes in with: I'm fascinated by how people choose where to travel. What is meaningful to you about Mexico? How does it serve the work? Alison, thank you for the question. I know you're...
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How honest are the questions you’re asking?
Here's a question I ask myself: how honest was that question I just asked? Do I ask, “what do you do?” when what I really want to know is, “how do you earn enough to both live a life you love and...
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5 Books that Helped Me Refine the Questions I Ask - Maybe They'll Help You, Too
Let’s pick up where we left on yesterday’s piece. In it, I asked about the kinds of questions you’re asking. I’ve mentioned before that I see the questions we ask as gifts. I think the more honest the...
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Money Abroad
Mercedes Orten asks "How do you best handle exchange rates and money conversions in another country? (I am traveling Internationally for the first time)" Thank you for the question, Mercedes. This is...
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Forget Your Perfect Offering
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
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Earning in Dollars, Spending in Pesos
What do you like more about Mexico than the United States? - Bahieh K Bahieh, I appreciate the question and am using it as a jumping off point. My History with Mexico I came to Mexico for the first...
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What's in the bag? [Mexico / November 2011]
L asks me honest questions. It's one of the reasons we're friends. Today she asked me "what's in the bag?" I told her. She said, "no. Show me." Then she walked over and grabbed the bag by its handle...
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An End, An Invitation
I began noticing how bored I was with blogging about two years ago. I thought things between us would improve. I’d fall back in love. We could figure this out. Now, I’m reviewing the past year - and...
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A Day in the Life + Monthly Review [November + December 2011, Mexico]
This is my life in Mexico. I've been here a month and a half. I'm here on an open ticket. I have no plans of going anywhere else. I love it here. I'm going to tell you about my life right now. First,...
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