As much as I try to remind my kids that Thanksgiving is a time to practice gratitude, for Brad at least, Thanksgiving Day is all about the mashed potatoes.
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We’re ready: Sign up today for Postcards from Kwaj!
The house in unpacked, I’ve hung all my pictures on the wall, and we’re pretty well settled into our new house on Kwajalein. So what that really means for you is: I’m ready to send some postcards.
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Day 12: Make new friends but keep the old
When we moved to Kwajalein, my greatest fear for Nora was that she would retreat back into herself. Making friends is chancy. It takes reaching out, extending yourself out into the world, risking rejection. To our great delight, Nora began making new friends before we even made it to the island.
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Day 9: A Kwajalein Top 5 List – Bikes are best
I’m pretty excited about my two-wheeled transportation on Kwajalein. Bicycles are the superior mode of getting from point A to point B, and here’s why.
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Day 1: Island bound, in search of a big life
We had been looking at photos of Kwajalein Atoll for six months, so when the airplane approached the runway, I recognized the features my family and I had been zooming in with Google Earth to see: the characteristic U-shape of the island, the square tide pools dug by the Japanese in World War II, dome homes, coconut palm trees.
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Small Island, Big Life 