Tanning Tribulations: My Hard Lesson About Sun Damage

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:22:24 +0000

Let’s hit the rewind button and travel back in time to about 10 years ago to when I was in my early twenties and didn’t have a care in the world. At that point in my life I was a junior at Radford University and was living the life. Going to class during the day, out partying with my sorority sisters at night maybe getting a workout at some point in between the two. I had just enough money in bank account each month to purchase food, booze, occasionally get my hair done and go tanning. Life was great. I felt like I was on top of the world but what I didn’t know then was that the stupid decisions I was making at that point in my life would later effect how I live now. I think we can all look back and think about how stupid we were when it came to protecting our skin from the sun. It was the last thing on our minds. I remember my mom telling me to take care of my skin, not to go tanning and to lather the sunscreen on my fair skin but being the stubborn twenty year old […]

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Greek Adventure Part 1: Mykonos

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:37:09 +0000

Poets, Playwrights and Photographers have been trying and failing to capture the beauty of the Greek Islands for thousands of years. Mykonos and Santorini are islands that must be seen, smelled, tasted and experienced. I demand that everyone put them on your bucket lists and someday visit yourself but in the mean time I will try to pick up where the classics fell short and share the best, worst, the tame and the wild that we found in Greece, starting with Mykonos. The flight was AWFUL, my absent minded husband wrote the wrong date of departure on his calendar and when he got the check in reminder a day earlier than he thought we were to depart, we had a total freak out. But after a flurry of packing, rushing to the airport and making our flight by just a few minutes, we ended up sitting on the tarmac for over an hour before taking off, resulting in a missed connection in Amsterdam. KLM then inexplicably re-routed us through Geneva and eventually on to Athens where we had to re-purchase our tickets to Mykonos because our flight had already left us. And they lost my luggage. Grrrrrrrrrr.. KLM. Anyway when […]

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