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Month-in-Review Highlights: August 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: August 2025

We spent our August vacation seeing and experiencing new things and, in general, shaking up our usual daily routines from start to finish.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthSeptember 3, 2025goals, postmortemComment
Bulls and Jute Shorts: The Story behind Swiss Wrestling
Bulls and Jute Shorts: The Story behind Swiss Wrestling

A little overview on what’s involved in the Swiss form of wrestling and how the nation used the sport to unify the country in the early 1800s.

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 20, 2025Switzerland, culture, historyComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: July 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: July 2025

Progress across all fronts in the first half of the month went well, but “progress” doesn’t mean you don’t progress into a wall.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthAugust 6, 2025goals, postmortemComment
Yodel All the Day Long: The Swiss Federal Yodeling Festival
Yodel All the Day Long: The Swiss Federal Yodeling Festival

For the three-day festival, participants number well above 12,000 for more than 1,000 performances. And while you can’t learn to yodel at the festival, Switzerland has plenty of teachers and classes.

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 30, 2025Switzerland, culture, historyComment
Books I've Read: Q2 2025
Books I've Read: Q2 2025

My books-read list for the second quarter of 2025. As I do with every quarter’s list, I bolded the titles that really stuck with me.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 16, 2025books, reading, literatureComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: June 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: June 2025

Throughout the course of June, worked steadily on the plan for my next novel. How it’s going? Who knows. On other fronts, though, all went well.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthJuly 2, 2025postmortem, goals Comments
Where the Swiss Go on Weekends: Into the Mountains
Where the Swiss Go on Weekends: Into the Mountains

No matter the season, the Swiss spend the weekends in the mountains hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, and climbing—sometimes in combination.

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthJune 18, 2025Switzerland, cultureComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: May 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: May 2025

After April broke me out of my winter hibernation, May saw me out in the world, enjoying more social and cultural time than the winter months.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthJune 4, 2025goals, postmortemComment
Graouilly: The Legend of the Dragon of Metz
Graouilly: The Legend of the Dragon of Metz

In the French town of Metz, people took their dragon story and what-ifed the story into something really grand.

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthMay 14, 2025France, history, cultureComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: April 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: April 2025

As anticipated in my post looking back on March, April meant a lot more moving around, given weather improvements and the shift to summer time.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthMay 7, 2025goals, postmortemComment
Switzerland and All that Jazz
Switzerland and All that Jazz

Switzerland got turned on and tuned into jazz music in the 1910s and the country’s love for the art form continues today. If you love jazz, you’ll love Switzerland.

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthApril 16, 2025Switzerland, musicComment
Books I've Read: Q1 2025
Books I've Read: Q1 2025

And the reading hasn’t stopped! Here are the books I read in the first three months of 2025, with my favorites in bold (as always).

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 9, 2025books, reading, literatureComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: March 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: March 2025

Nothing like having more light in the evenings to bring this hibernating bear into the new season.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 2, 2025goals, postmortem Comments
Bread and Circuses: The Circus Festival in Normandy
Bread and Circuses: The Circus Festival in Normandy

Makes sense that every industry we can imagine has its own conference somewhere, no? So why not the circus?

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthMarch 12, 2025travel, franceComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: February 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: February 2025

Despite a head cold and the death of my ancient computer at midmonth, I managed to forge ahead with my work. How’s that for determination?

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthMarch 5, 2025goals, postmortem, writingComment
The French Fête du Citron in Menton
The French Fête du Citron in Menton

When life gives you lemons, glue ‘em on a truck and call it a parade.

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WanderingLeslie FarnsworthFebruary 12, 2025France, history, CultureComment
Month-in-Review Highlights: January 2025
Month-in-Review Highlights: January 2025

January Januaried, if that makes any sense. Morale low entering February, but I’ll power through. I always do.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthFebruary 5, 2025goals, postmortem, writingComment
Musings on Social Media and Blogging
Musings on Social Media and Blogging

I’ve had an itch to evolve the blog again, based on my recent musings about the types of communion I crave.

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JournalLeslie FarnsworthJanuary 29, 2025blogging, social mediaComment
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