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Top Posts from 2016 on Wendi’s Weekend Trips & Whatnot

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Did you have a good New Year's Eve and New Year's Day? We hope your 2017 is better than 2016. For Wendi's Weekend Trips & Whatnot, 2016 was a time of growth and a time of challenge. Last year marked the first full year of the blog. Wendi started it in late July 2015, so from January-August 2015, there is not much to compare. However, where we can compare 2016 was better than 2015, except for December 2015, which was an anomaly for this blog (more on that later). Where we faced challenges was … [Read more...]

Ricardo Montalban: A Memory of a Lifetime 

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I was recently looking back over my blog posts and realized I had said I was going to tell my story about Ricardo Montalban. I had told my husband, Bobby, that one thing I wanted to do in my life was to meet Ricardo Montalban. Even though it was on my bucket list, I thought the chances of it actually happening were very slim. (As a side note, I have learned to stop doubting what can happen when Bobby Warren is on your side.) It just so happened that in the early part of the year 2000, a … [Read more...]

How Hemingway Changed the Craft of Writing

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When Bobby Warren, friend and co-worker, returned from his annual pilgrimage to Boston, I knew there would be stories. What I did not know was he would ask me to do a guest blog post for his better half’s popular blog based upon their visit to the Ernest Hemingway exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. He was aware I was a fan, but prodded and challenged me to explain… why? Initially, my mind swirled. I knew I wanted to write the definitive Hemingway piece. It had … [Read more...]

Locked in on Fun: Escape Room Wooster 

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Imagine you willingly lock yourself in a room with nine of your friends and you have 45 minutes to figure out a mystery to get out. That is how I spent Saturday night, November 5, 2016. My husband, Bobby, and I helped celebrate our good friend, Jan Maxwell's birthday. Her husband Ron arranged for us to enjoy the experience at Unlocked: Escape Room Wooster. So I am obviously not going to give anything away in this post about what happens when you attend an event. But I will say it isn't as … [Read more...]

Find Your Park: National Park Service Celebrates a Century

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The slogan of the National Park Service on the occasion of its 100th anniversary was designed as an invitation, an enticement to exploration and adventure, much like what my husband and I had in mind when we began our Walking Ohio with Jon and Linda Hall blog to discover all that our own state has to offer. Find Your Park is a suggestion that has inspired me throughout 2016. Because of the year-long NPS centennial celebration, I’ve paid increasing attention to the precious places — … [Read more...]