Tag: Dartmouth

• The Year of the New Decade

  

  I started to compose this blog on January 4th, as part of my annual tradition, and in the three weeks since I drafted the opening paragraph, I: I ended up in the ER. had to close my bank account because someone was creating fraudulent checks. found out a very special person passed away at the…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  January 31, 2020

  holidays, Life, lists, photos, travel, writing

  2020, chinese calendar, Dartmouth, food, food writer, Global Scavenger Hunt, Greece, Greek, joyfulness project, look back, new decade, new year, nostalgia, Teaching English, thassos, top lists, top ten, writing

• Good Things Come To Those Who….

  

  (wait for it…) Yes, wait. The saying is true. Good things are happening and I think it’s time for my blog to get a facelift. I’m sensing a change—not just my address or current country (although that will be changing soon enough), but in the energy of the universe. This will be the summer of…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  April 28, 2019

  blogging, humor, Life, travel, writing

  blogging, Dartmouth, encounters with strangers, Harvard alumni, humor, life, life of a writer, New Zealand, publication, random thoughts, waiting, waiting at the airport, writing

• To Share or Not To Share: The Blogger’s Dilemma

  I have an annoying tendency to tell people to read my blog, and it’s not always a good idea.   The most regrettable population I target are guys with whom I go on dates. Typically, I don’t come at them with “Read my blog or there will be no second date,” but I adamantly talk about…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  June 18, 2014

  blogging, humor, writing

  bad dates, blogging, Dartmouth, embarrassing moments, kegel muscles, New Zealand, self-promotion, travel, writing

• Christmas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  I have no blog because the only thing I’ve done since school ended last Tuesday is eat holiday fudge and write poems worthy of AA. Nothing says Merry Christmas like a poem about denial!   So I’ll spare you my list of bah-humbugs because most of them are dumb, and some of them are just embarrassing, like…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  December 25, 2012

  holidays, lists

  bah humbug, Dartmouth, ENMU Alan Garrett, Merrie Christmas, Robert Frost, Roswell Daily Record, Tom Brady