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Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Why You Should Travel and See the World

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How you spend your days is how you spend

I love this quote! It has been replaying in my mind all day and makes me think about what I should change about my days. Do I live my days as I want to spend my life or am I always thinking along the lines of “I just need to do X for Y amount of time to be able to eventually do Z.” Food for thought.

© 2013, Stephanie Meade. All rights reserved.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephanie is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of InCultureParent. She has two Moroccan-American daughters (ages 5 and 6), whom she is raising, together with her husband, bilingual in Arabic and English at home, while also introducing Spanish. After many moves worldwide, she currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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