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Trusting My Audience

November 21, 2016 By Jodi

Today I'm letting you in on a little of the backend stuff that happens here at Dear Sabrina. I run this blog on WordPress, and I've installed a standard set of plug-ins (think of them as apps) to help me run different aspects of the backend. One of those, perhaps the most popular, is called...

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The Blog that Made Me Want to Blog - A Cup of Jo

November 14, 2016 By Jodi

There's this blog that I've been reading for a couple years now. It's called A Cup of Jo and I've linked to it a few times from Dear Sabrina, including a couple days ago. While I don't love all the posts (I'm not particularly interested in beauty and fashion stuff, as you may have guessed already), I like...

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

October 26, 2016 By Jodi

My incredibly talented friends continue to share their work on Dear Sabrina this week while I'm in Michigan with my mom, preparing for the services--and the arrival of far-flung family and friends--later this week. I met Sophia Augusta shortly after moving to Stockholm. We'd been set up by a mutual friend (a former colleague of...

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Preparing To Go Home, and Some Links

October 19, 2016 By Jodi

Tomorrow I'm flying back to Michigan to be with my family. It's been a weird few days here in Sweden, being so far removed from my childhood home, my mother and brother, our extended family and our friends. I've had to continue on with life as normal here, even with a heavy heart. I've felt as though my grieving...

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misty mountainside happiness and grief

Happiness isn't big enough

October 17, 2016 By Jodi

Last week I wrote a post considering the question of whether seeking happiness actually makes us miserable, as some maintain. (Spoiler alert: I don't think so.) I was moved by the comments to that post, and all week I've been thinking about this one: In the 1960s, there were some very popular and influential books that accused American...

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"Why Am I Still Thinking About This Day?"

October 13, 2016 By Jodi

I listened to a podcast last week that I've been thinking about ever since. It was an episode of Magic Lessons (Season 1, Episode 10) in which Elizabeth Gilbert talks to the humorist John Hodgman about creativity and trying new things. Hodgman explains that at a friend's prompting, he scheduled a series of weekly shows at a small theater in Brooklyn....

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Rainy Day Reads

September 28, 2016 By Jodi

Today is the first rainy day we've had in weeks, and I'm loving it. I don't feel any pressure to go out for a walk or admire the view: I feel perfectly okay sitting inside, reading and sipping tea (there's probably a nap happening this afternoon, too). While I'm terrified of the long winter to come, today...

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Some Thoughts on a Friday

September 23, 2016 By Jodi

I went to a funeral earlier this week on the island of Åland. I hadn't known the person who passed very long, but I'd come to admire him in the months that I did. A friend and I went together, taking a ferry from Sweden to the Finnish islands lying in the Baltic.

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Happiness Project: A New Page for Links

September 20, 2016 By Jodi

I'm recovering from a long weekend of hosting friends from out-of-country and a short trip to Åland, a group of Swedish-speaking Finnish islands (an archipelago!) that lie between Sweden and Finland. I'm also battling a cold while desperately trying to catch up with office work. I find it so much harder to recover and to catch...

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Why September is Great for Projects

September 5, 2016 By Jodi

While I'm preparing tomorrow's post about making resolutions for my happiness project, I wanted to share this wonderful, timely piece with you. It comes from The Pool, a smart web publication from Britain that my friend Sophia turned me on to. (It's definitely worth subscribing to their email list!).

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Happiness Project Month 5 Wrap-Up

February 1, 2017 By Jodi Leave a Comment

Empty bench in park by James Pond

This month in my happiness project I wanted to give myself an attitude adjustment. I wanted to pause to enjoy the moment, and I wanted to work on my bad habit of complaining too much. I was fairly successful in my first goal but less so in my second. It helped that I set myself up...

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Me at 42

September 16, 2021 By Jodi 1 Comment

I celebrated my 42nd birthday last weekend. And despite all the popular culture and conventional wisdom informing me that I shouldn't admit to that—42—I just did. Because I am not ashamed of the woman I have become, and that woman has been 42 years in the making.

Some Pics From Our Trip to Spain

January 30, 2017 By Jodi 4 Comments

Nerja, Costa del Sol, Spain

And we're back! We had such a lovely time in Spain, and now it feels great to be home again. Spain was just what we needed: a break from the dark winter. We got so much sunshine and warmth (except in Granada), and I felt an infusion of energy. I got so much exercise walking everywhere...

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It's Time to Talk About Ikea

February 8, 2017 By Jodi 2 Comments

Ikea sinnerlig pitcher and pot

I've wanted to include design—interior and industrial/product—in this blog since its inception. That's actually the main reason I included the "Beauty" category you see in the top menu. It's taken me this long to get to it, but I'm glad to be here finally. So this is the first in what *should* become a weekly...

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