No Hurry in J.C.
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Mystery Machines

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My new (used) Prius, named Clifford, wanted to pose with his friends in the parking garage at the office.
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

A Look Forward and Back

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And thus ends another year, merely a turn of the clock, really, but we use it to first reflect and then greet the new day with hope and inte...
Monday, January 01, 2024

Happy New Year from Cancun Airport

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I have two simple resolutions for 2024. I am going to read more books. And I plan to carve out time for my own pursuits in a way I haven...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Tulum: Day Five

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I awoke to an overwhelming sewage stench in my “luxury” Tulum condo. I’d noticed a faint whiff a few times and chalked it up to poor sewers ...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Tulum: Day Four

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Today’s professional excursion was titled Mayan Inland Empire, and the gist of it was I got to go with other tourists in a van to the ruins...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Tulum: Day Three

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What was more exciting, making breakfast in the AirBnB, doing some laundry in the sink, or ironing a shirt on a beach towel laid out on the ...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Tulum: Day Two

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I did it! I went to yoga class! I found a place near my lodging and signed up for an 8:30 a.m. class today and one tomorrow. My biggest yog...

Some Other Time, Perhaps

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I think Tulum ruins might be hell. The first long line was for paying the national park fee. The second long line was for the admission tick...

Tulum: Day One

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I spent a lot of time on Reddit and TripAdvisor. I read Lonely Planet Caribbean cover to cover. Where would I go, I wondered, for the week b...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Editors Can Be Tiresome

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I don’t have the same traditional vices as most folks. I’m too lazy sometimes, but I don’t drink, smoke, indulge in much beyond coffee. And ...
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Marie Javins
An ex-New Yorker starts blogging with "No Hurry in Africa" in Uganda and Namibia in 2005, moves to Kuwait and Cairo to make comic books, circumnavigates the world for a second time in 2011, then just when she settles down to see what NYC and JC hold for her, finds herself unexpectedly off to Burbank for work.
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