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Over the past few weeks I have been road tripping and trying what is called, “slow travel.” This is a way of traveling where instead of rapidly checking off landmarks and moving quickly to the next spot I stayed a few days in a lot of locations.
Sort of.
There turned out to be plenty of spots that I didn’t feel like there was much I wanted to explore so I did just move on the next day.
So maybe it’s more like slow-ish travel. I dunno. Maybe it doesn’t really need a name. If you are curious, I might share more about my adventures but I don’t know how interested anybody might be. Hit reply and let me know if you want to hear more.
Perhaps more interesting there are 2 imperfect stories that I’m sharing with you today. Michelle Dovey has a charming story about pushing her limits with a personal challenge to draw 100 nude drawings of men that she didn’t know. Mindy Uhrlaub shares her personal story of being a part of the sandwich generation caring for a parent, a spouse and getting her own diagnosis that she had the gene for ALS.
Enjoy and I’ll be back in your email box next week.
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Shame | How Asking For What You Want Changes Everything
Michelle Dovey
Imagine a moment in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence where a professional artist, sketchbook open and pen moving, looked down at her drawing of the statue of Apollo and noticed something was missing. She had left a blank space exactly where the genitals should have been. This was not on purpose, not consciously, but automatically, as if her hand already knew the rules before her mind did. That blank space, circled in pencil so she would not lose the evidence of it, became the starting point for one of the most unexpected personal experiments in recent memory. Drawing nude art as a woman, it turned out, was never just about art at all.
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Costco Shoppers Say This Gem Is "All You Need" To Remove Wrinkles
Women over 50 are calling Auvoria's Korean-formulated serum their secret to looking years younger without needles or expensive treatments. Experts say it targets the #1 cause of wrinkles many skincare brands ignore: collagen-signal breakdown deep beneath the skin's surface. Users report smoother lines, firmer-looking skin, and a tighter, more lifted appearance in as little as 4 weeks. It's become one of Costco's most talked-about beauty finds — and now you can try the same formula online without a membership.
Health | Lived Experience Facing A Genetic Diagnosis
Many of us assume that hard times will happen one at a time. If you get cancer then you deal with the cancer, then the aging parent, then the teenager, then the genetic test results. You catch your breath between rounds. Mindy Uhrlaub did not get that version. The Marin County author and ALS advocate was 48 when she received confirmation that she carries a genetic mutation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. At that point, she was already deep into caregiving for a husband with recurrent lymphoma, a mother whose ALS diagnosis had just arrived, and a son who, as she put it, "went off the rails." Her new memoir, Last Nerve, is the account of surviving all of it simultaneously, and it is far less about ALS than the title might suggest. It is about what happens to a whole person when the systems she depends on all start failing at once.
Mindy Uhrlaub
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