Strip Down and K.I.S.S.

Historically I wait a week to write my new year’s blog post. The chatter’s too loud on the 1st and no one’s listening. So here we are 10 days in. How are you doing?

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Val Haller
Comfort Food + Cover Songs

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you ~

Wherever you are, and no matter what your holiday has morphed into this year I wish you a weekend respite from reality with comfort & gratitude, as much as you can muster. I'm thankful for you! xo

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Val Haller
Bounce

You may not know this about me but I’m a huge word-nerd. To make it even worse I’m sort of a font + punctuation bitch too. It’s an obsession and it’s getting worse…

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Val Haller
Best of September 2020

We’re so deep in the weeds right now, aren’t we? Too much news, too many disasters, too many surprises, too many points of view, too many emotions. Things are open-ended. No decisions. No closure.

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Val Haller
Dear Singles

I’ve been married for 40 years so what could I possibly know about dating and sex during a pandemic?

Maybe more than you think.

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Val Haller
Dear Road Trip

“California or Bust”? Not so fast. As you say goodbye to your worldly obsessions: “Au revoir Paris. Ciao Italian villa. Tschüss Oktoberfest.

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Dear New You

Whether we like it or not we’re going to come out of this changed. As we emerge from our pandemic cocoons, some of us will unveil new & improved versions of ourselves.

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Dear Home

My mother just told me that my grandmother, Mildred Yoder of Middlebury, IN lived through the Spanish flu of 1918, the deadliest pandemic in human history. She was a little girl, 9 years old. How did I not know about this?

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Val Haller