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    The Reality about Writing a Blog

    The reality about writing a blog is that it’s not reality-writing. A blog is not an all inclusive diary. It may be a slice of life and it may be all true, yet it’s never the entire truth.

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    The Swiss (II): Idiosyncrasies

    The Swiss may seem safe to the point of boring. They are organized, clean, polite. But when you look closer, beyond your first impressions, you may see idiosyncrasies demonstrating that the Swiss are quite human, like the rest of us.

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    Swiss Fountains: Pure and Free Water Wherever You Go

    The Swiss got many things right in their country. One of them is the presence of water fountains wherever you go. Some are simple stone receptacles engraved with the year of its construction. Others are more elaborate. What they all…

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    Slow Travel: The Enzenbühl Cemetery

    Today, on my slow-traveling walk, I ambled into the Friedhof Enzenbühl (aka Friedhof Rehalp or the Enzenbühl Cemetery). The Swiss, apparently, like to pair their dead with art. This graveyard is a sculpture garden. A treasure.

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    Writing a Blog: Over-Indulgence, Added Bonus, or Something Else?

    The narcissism intrinsic to diaries and auto-interviews; the delusional aspect of talking to yourself; the arrogance of conception, realization, publication, thinking you have something valuable to share; the deep-rooted vanity of a so-called struggling author to expose herself, her anxieties,…

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    The Pfannenstiel Trail above Lake Zurich

    Today we hiked the Pfannenstiel Trail from Forch to Meilen, the one we’d planned to take last Wednesday. We made it to the Rehalp S-Bahn stop this time without getting distracted and purchased tickets that proved to be the wrong…

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