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From Me To You . . . March 2025

With my children growing up and fleeing the nest, parents aging rapidly (thereby adding to my responsibilities), and a realization of my own mortality, I have decided that something in my life needs to change. I have been traveling more and more frequently - to my hometown to spend as much time with my parents as possible, to the opposite ends of America because that was the only way to hug my grown children, and when I had any time - or air miles - left, to vacation spots with friends. Not to sound too dramatic but I have also developed a growing desire to be somewhere other than Arizona during those burning months of summer that are becoming less and less bearable. Looking back at all this travel, I seem to have accidentally become a modified ‘Snowbird’.

I have called many places home during my life, and whether I moved a few miles down the road or crossed vast oceans, I have put down roots wherever I ended up. This has created a nomad like existence where home is everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. Don’t get me wrong, it can give you so much to enjoy. The expansion of thought by absorbing other cultures and learning that there are many different ways of doing things, the beauty of implementing that knowledge by deciding which version works for you - despite your own upbringing not because of it. There are also the many friends to be made and experiences to be lived. The flip side of all that for me is not knowing exactly where home is, the question “Where are you from?” is not so simple to answer. I miss people who are no longer a part of my everyday existence when I relocate. It takes a conscious effort, on both sides, to keep a friendship vibrant, and not everyone is willing, or able, to expend that effort.

In this iteration of relocation however, I am not moving away completely, just for a few months at a time. In this way I hope to create a little more stability for myself and provide a little more rhythm to my life. Hopefully, I will finally be able to follow the good weather around the globe, like a respectable snowbird, returning to the nest every fall, refreshed and ready to face the year ahead. Wish me luck!

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Catherine Uretsky

Editor in Chief, Estrella Publishing