Good morning from Galicia. I am in La Coruña in the Northwest corner of Spain with my bestie, Marion. Before I go on to share what I want to talk about today, I want to say that Marion and I decided about five or six years ago that we were going to make an effort to do something alone every year. I have to say I’m proud of us. Marion and I have kept that promise to ourselves. Even if it’s a short weekend, we have made a point of carving out time to be together and to do something fun. We’ve taken some great little trips together. It has been just great, and I highly recommend that you do that with your loved ones.

In fact, it’s funny as I’m telling you this, I’m realizing I’ve started to do this with another group of people. I am one of five women. We all lived in Italy for an extended period. Four of the five of us are dual Italian citizens. We have our WhatsApp group, we do the occasional zoom call and this coming April we’re going to do our second weekend together. Even though we’re only looking at year two, I’m hoping that this is a tradition that we keep up.

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