Tag Archives: national parks
Break Away: Scheduling
One year I picked up a calendar of Iowa state parks. One weekend each month my partner and I went hiking wherever the calendar told us to go. We explored many wonderful places and saw the beauty it states. Plus, … Continue reading
Discover America’s Beautiful National Parks
Good news thrifty adventurers, the National Park Service (NPS) is waiving entrance fees at park sites across the country on five days in 2022. According to an NPS release, the annual free admission days “are designed to encourage discovery and visitation of … Continue reading
Staycation
Have you taken a close look at your favorite city lately? A lot has changed. The foods gotten better, the drinks stronger, the shopping more varied. There are parklets and pop-ups and First Friday gallery walks and it all happing … Continue reading
The Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous … Continue reading
I’m Out of the Office ….
Originally posted on Real Life of an MSW:
It is June, or what I like to refer to as summer! That means some time away from the office. While many of us dream of going to our happy place, we…