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A Girl’s Best Friend is Her Chrome Extensions
If you’re like me (and most people), you’re into ways to make life easier. These Chrome extensions have individually and collectively improved the quality of my life significantly, and I’ve been recommending them to people in Girl Develop It classes, so I thought it’d be good to compile them all here. Without further ado: Pocket…
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Moving & What We Hold Onto
We’re in the midst of a move. It’s not far, but it’s fairly major. It’s maybe the most physically and mentally exhausting move I’ve endured so far, even though it’s literally just a few blocks. I’m looking forward to the chance to purge and rearrange thoughtfully, which is admittedly counter to my accumulative nature. I…
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Iceland: Everyone’s an artist
On our last night in Reykjavik, we decided to make friends with a really sweet bartender at the famous Kaffibarinn after ordering the cursory shot of Brennivin. He told us that everyone in Iceland is a bartender, because everyone is also either a photographer, musician, or artist and tends bar to pay rent. We asked which…
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The Day I Thought We Died: Vík & Jökulsárlón
We got to the car rental place as soon as it opened. After signing so many papers and making so many copies and getting so many very stern warnings about not taking our rental car off-roading or over any bodies of water, we started driving out of Reykjavik. It didn’t take us too long to…
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Iceland: The Golden Circle
It’s typically not our style to do touristy guided tours. I want to feel like I’m more or less free to explore when and how I like. So it was odd that Chad and I found ourselves hanging out at the Icelandic Travel Market several times throughout the week. We definitely weren’t bored and looking…
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A Mini Tour of Reykjavik
The Reykjavik city center is super small and easily explorable in a weekend or a day, if you hustle. It’s reassuring, actually, especially when you think you may have gotten punked via AirBnB. I wrote a food-based preview & recap of the city for the Town Dish, but this is a more general mini tour of Reykjavik.…