May-cember Is Real
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May-cember Is Real

It is a Tuesday night in early May and I am standing in my daughter's school auditorium, phone in one hand, program in the other, Resy notifications going off in my pocket while I try to be fully present for the last performance of the year. May-cember is real. Here is how I move through it.

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Summer Travel Planning: One City, One Beat (And How I Actually Plan It)
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Summer Travel Planning: One City, One Beat (And How I Actually Plan It)

After years of overstacking our summers, too many cities, too much driving, arriving back on Maui hollowed out instead of restored, I stopped building itineraries and started building beats. One city. One purpose. One note in a greater song. Here's how I actually do it, and the simple tools that make it work.

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