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I’m Kate
For more than a decade and a half, I’ve helped people create a life by design through my lifestyle and travel blog.
I’m a mom of 3, a full-time romance author, and I’ve been to more than 40 countries and nearly all the states.
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Chattanooga’s Southside Was Warehouses and Empty Lots 20 Years Ago. Now It’s the Most Expensive Place to Rent in the City.
Twenty years ago, Chattanooga’s Southside was mostly abandoned rail infrastructure, low-slung warehouses, and surface parking lots south of the downtown…
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A Real Week in Alaska Costs About $2,750 Per Person. A Cruise Costs About the Same and Shows You Almost None of the Interior.
Most people’s mental model of an Alaska trip is a cruise ship gliding past a glacier while a naturalist narrates…
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Buffalo Is Not the City in Your Head. It Hasn’t Been for Years.
Say “Buffalo, New York” to most Americans and they picture the same three things: snow, the Bills, and a Rust…
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Glaciers Covered Almost the Entire Midwest. They Skipped One Pocket of Wisconsin and Iowa, and You Can Feel the Difference Driving Through It.
During the last ice age, glaciers flattened most of the upper Midwest into the gently rolling farmland most people picture…
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People Who Move to New Orleans Either Never Leave or Wash Out Before Year Two. There’s a Reason It’s That Binary.
New Orleans has one of the most polarized relocation patterns of any American city. Ask around and you will hear…
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SCAD Generated $1.3 Billion for Georgia’s Economy Last Year. It Started as One Renovated Armory With 71 Students.
Savannah College of Art and Design opened in 1979 inside a single renovated armory building with 71 students. Today it…