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![Croatian Connections: Three Social Media Accounts That Highlight Croatia](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1697211223875-D6TBUEZFWRAMN353DPCG/IMG_5791.jpg)
Croatian Connections: Three Social Media Accounts That Highlight Croatia
Navigating this Adriatic Adventure often includes exploring the World Wide Web for relevant Croatian content.
![Why Does The Baker Go To Work? He Kneads The Dough](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1680196736709-W8YCC0V37L2A8H9VE5KB/IMG_2005.jpg)
Why Does The Baker Go To Work? He Kneads The Dough
A few days ago, the plan was to make pizza dough.
![Celebrating Beginnings and Endings](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1677875896217-CYS1IE25V711P5GPC0P0/pexels-lukas-hartmann-1127120.jpg)
Celebrating Beginnings and Endings
I record these musings to remind myself just how delicious life is - sometimes we forget - sometimes I forget- so these entries are a way to remind myself that this adventure (life) should be celebrated - wins, losses, heartbreak, joy - and everything in between
![Exploring Croatia: The Time I Accidentally Ordered Breaded Calamari In Imotski](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1676232586371-FKMH7DOLMK6L84KB7R4W/IMG_1127.jpg)
Exploring Croatia: The Time I Accidentally Ordered Breaded Calamari In Imotski
Have you had the breaded calamari at Hotel Venezia in Imotski, Croatia?
![How Do You Say ‘Delicious’ In Croatian?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1675854937760-2X92B6H9CWDZ97X4VIOW/IMG_0798.jpg)
How Do You Say ‘Delicious’ In Croatian?
Yesterday a friend asked, how do you say a meal is delicious in Croatian?
![My Adriatic Adventure Includes Less Smartphone, More Sea and Mountains](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1675790939767-ZJI29E9CBSZNZHD2YXIU/ajeet-mestry-UBhpOIHnazM-unsplash.jpg)
My Adriatic Adventure Includes Less Smartphone, More Sea and Mountains
I’ve spent the last few years limiting my time on electronic gadgets, especially since the pandemic.
It’s served me well.
![Food, Glorious Food](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1675080034488-0T1WTF28XPI1GXVEBRFY/IMG_0667.jpg)
Food, Glorious Food
Over the last few years, I’ve made strides in the kitchen. I finally realized that a lack of sense of smell was out of my control, a crutch I was using, and it was time to wake up and smell the coffee. Pun intended.
![Who Is Writing Your Adventure?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1674338404396-P0N8F93VT7BTIAV2Q11T/florian-klauer-mk7D-4UCfmg-unsplash.jpg)
Who Is Writing Your Adventure?
This brief ramble is about agency: the ability to take action or choose what action to take, and ultimately, what happens when you give your agency away?
![Oh, Canada: Five Little Things I Noticed While in Canada ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1673553246590-B8JHD519WOO1IAI4M1N5/IMG_9818.jpg)
Oh, Canada: Five Little Things I Noticed While in Canada
On December 1, 2022, I traveled to Mississauga, Canada, and spent a month in the company of family and friends.
![Happy Birthday To Me!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1668422371221-9SXD3JK26ZDAX9KBNFMN/IMG_8431.jpg)
Happy Birthday To Me!
Yesterday was my birthday.
I was thinking about how I wanted to celebrate.
![Exploring Croatia: Olive Harvesting In Gradac](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1668179161856-DRX6D0GZXL1WL3YA2HYY/IMG_7886.jpg)
Exploring Croatia: Olive Harvesting In Gradac
Over the last two weeks, I spent three days picking olives in Gradac, Croatia, a coastal town 40 km south of Makarska.
![Exploring Croatia: Building a Dry Stone Wall in Brela](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1666709841335-TVFKS10W0CFCTTMDXAR7/IMG_7146.jpg)
Exploring Croatia: Building a Dry Stone Wall in Brela
I have no experience constructing a dry stone wall. I don’t think I thought about ever wanting to construct a dry stone wall before moving to Croatia. But here I am, living my Adriatic adventure. Seems it involves learning about dry stone walls.
![Nine Random Notes About My Nine Months In Croatia](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1665429670965-VPTJSY8P0M9IRAEGRPB8/IMG_3698+%281%29.jpg)
Nine Random Notes About My Nine Months In Croatia
I'm in Season Three (Summer) of the Marijana in Makarska, Croatia - show. Except, get this, it's not a show. It's real life. It's my life.
![This Was A Big Thing](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/1665402622511-ZP1X3MGXQWA5E35GP295/1_zIa4b3-rqTgBBDwx2gL5Gw.jpeg)
![My Adriatic Adventure: Three Months and Counting…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62dab22827996d603b1ecd85/d9e12e08-63ca-4bab-90d8-5858e1453f94/1_8S48KxcDl5B-LP2SAveIqQ.jpeg)
My Adriatic Adventure: Three Months and Counting…
It’s been three months since I packed some of my things and made my way to Croatia, three months of me creating routines in a new place, three months of exercising my mind in a way that I haven’t exercised in years.