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Day 4861: Barcelona

Today, we’re leaving beautiful Barcelona for a few days in Madrid. Because I love it so much here, I’m glad we’ll be returning to Barcelona before we fly back to the USA.

I hope today’s images encourage you to to visit Barcelona.

The amazing performers at Tablao Flamenco Cordobes!

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I hope you enjoyed these images from beautiful Barcelona. See you tomorrow from Madrid and thanks for being here, now!

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Day 4860: Surreal

Because I knew we were going to the Dali Museum yesterday, EVERYTHING seemed surreal.

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Here’s what I find when I search for “surreal” on YouTube.

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Thanks to everyone who helps me get through this surreal world, including YOU!

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Day 4859: Because we love this place

Because we love this place, I’m sharing this photo I took in the gift shop of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família.

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Because we love this place, many of us hope that Earth Day 2026 will remind people to take good care of our home.

Because we love this place of blogging, I am going to share many images of places I love today.

Because we love this place, Jeanette, Ray, and I are loving the bells in the Passion Tower of Sagrada Família.
Because we love this place we’re staying, here’s a picture and audio of the wild parrots living outside!
Because we love this place (Good Times Barcelona) here’s a picture of wonderful Dennis (who loved my song Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole).

Because we love this place, we’ll get through our current reality together.

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Thanks to all who are here for the places I love, including YOU!

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Day 4858: Phoning it in

Today’s Daily Bitch Calendar is about phoning it in.

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Because I’m in Barcelona and left my laptop at home, I am totally phoning it in when I blog, take photos, and connect with my husband and cats back home.

And regarding the usual meaning of that phrase …

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… while I’ll never be phoning it in that way, I would like to reduce my usual perfectionism and worry-based efforts while maintaining my enthusiasm and engagement.

It’s time for me to be phoning it in with my images for today.

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Here’s what I find when I search for “phoning it in” on YouTube:

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I look forward to people phoning it in with their comments, below.

Thanks to all who are here for this phoning-it-in post, including YOU!

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Day 4857: Comfort

I take comfort in the fact that I’ve safely started another travel adventure with comforting friends.

I hope you find comfort in my images for today.

It was a comfort to connect with kind-eyed David in the TSA line.
It’s a comfort to travel with Ray and Janet again.

It’s a comfort to be off the dating apps since I met my husband Michael on one.

It’s a comfort to be in beautiful Barcelona with friends.

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Thanks to all who give me comfort, including YOU!

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Day 4856: Where would you go?

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?

Today, I’m going to Logan Airport to fly to Barcelona with friends. I hope you’ll go there with me via this blog.

While you’re thinking about where you would go, here are my images for today.

Yesterday I went to Rubato and reconnected with Top Chef contestant Laurence Louie!

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Here’s what I find on YouTube when I go there to search for “where would you go?”

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Thanks to all who go where they would go, including YOU!

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Day 4632: Reading

I appreciate you reading this blog, as I prepare for the last day of an intensive Balint group therapy training in Charleston, South Carolina.

At some point, I’ll be reading and singing to all the training participants these new lyrics I wrote to an old song.

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Yesterday afternoon, my friend and fellow group therapist Mary enjoyed reading signs in Charleston:

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Here’s what I’ll be reading when I get back to Boston:

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Thanks to all who managed to keep reading to the end of this post, including YOU!

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Day 4629: Favorite Cities

Over the many years I’ve been blogging, I’ve featured several favorite cities including Edinburgh, Venice, London, San Francisco, Boston (my home), and Charleston, South Carolina.

Yesterday I returned to Charleston for an intensive group therapy training accompanied by one of my favorite people, Mary.

Do you see favorite cities in my images for today?

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On Eat an Extra Dessert Day, I will try to eat an extra dessert in one of my favorite cities.

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “favorite cities.”

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Thanks to all who are here for this favorite-cities post, including YOU!

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Day 4628: A Good Day

After having a good day yesterday, I asked a question about a good day on social media.

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Reading those answers already makes this a good day, as I prepare for a flight to Charleston, South Carolina, where I’ve had good days before (here and here).

Do you see a good day in my other images for today?

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No matter what is on the list of Holidays and Observances and even though I’m way past middle age, I plan to have a good day.

This will be a good day despite my being triggered by air travel, as you can hear in this song.

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And it’s a good day even though that YouTube site has only one follower, and it’s me!

Thanks to all those who help me have a good day, including YOU.

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Day 4624: Favorite restaurants

Now that I’m on vacation and down to my fighting weight (whatever that means), I’m thinking about favorite restaurants.

My goal is to enjoy great food in favorite restaurants near Boston and also in Charleston, South Carolina when I’m there for a group therapy training next week.

Last night, I asked a question about favorite restaurants on Twitter.

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I think people like sharing about their favorite restaurants.

Here are some favorite restaurants in Charleston, South Carolina

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Yesterday evening, my husband and o ate at one of our favorite restaurants and then went on our traditional walk looking for rabbits.

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Tonight, we are going to another favorite restaurant which might actually have toasted marshmallow and bacon on the menu. I’m going to tell them that they can stream my new album there if they want.

Here’s what I find when I search for “favorite restaurants” on YouTube.

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What’s your favorite restaurant?

Thanks to all who are here for this favorite-restaurants post, including YOU!

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