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Author: Lisa Mc Sherry

It’s Not All Sunshine and Pastries

Posted in Daily Life, Navel Gazing
Lisa Mc Sherry

Looking back at our posts I can see how a reader might think our life is turning out some degree of perfect, so its time for a bit of writing…

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Looking at the Basics: Laundry

Posted in Daily Life, Navel Gazing
Lisa Mc Sherry

After enlightenment, the laundry. ~Zen saying In our previous life, J. and I did laundry twice a week for a total of 4-5 loads. One day (usually Tuesday) we did…

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Mandatory Equanimity: or, “(you better) keep calm and carry on”

Posted in Europe, Portugal
Lisa Mc Sherry

A number of years ago we were driving in Ireland, spending a lot of time looking at lesser-known stone circles and other ancient monoliths. This was 2012, and having full-blown,…

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SEF Dreaming

Posted in Emmigrating
Lisa Mc Sherry

I imagine the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras — or SEF for short– the government unit responsible for processing and approving visas — as a typical office. Typical people sit…

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Part 8b: Revisiting “Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff” – Results!

Posted in Moving
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called Divesting Our Household tl;dr: the managed seller auction pickup process is so easy, we could have left the house for the day….

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Part 8: Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff

Posted in Moving
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal One of the people in our area (henceforth know as RV) in the AFiP group mentioned they were using…

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How Do You Eat An Elephant?

Posted in Moving
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called Divesting Our Household One bite at a time, of course. How do you sell a lifetime’s-accumulation of stuff? Actually, one giant gulp…

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Big Changes Coming

Posted in Emmigrating
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal We’ve got some big changes coming. At the end of November we’re going to San Francisco to share Thanksgiving…

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Fira and the Ferry

Posted in Greece
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called Greece – September 2019 A move day, instead of travel. Up we got and had a lovely breakfast at Agaze. J. had…

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Accessing Akrotiri And Angst!

Posted in Greece
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called Greece – September 2019 I wasn’t feeling well, so I decided to stay at our place and rest up (read, write, try…

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