Betsy Talbot's Blog, page 12
April 2, 2014
When Your Dream Evolves (Podcast #56 – Buying a House in Spain)
Married with Luggage, The Podcast is a weekly 20-minute podcast where we share lessons about love from our own adventures and couples just like you. We invite you to make every Wednesday a standing date with the Married with Luggage Podcast. Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own […]
March 30, 2014
Spanish House: Before and After Pics (plus notes on settling in to village life)
Our house is 90% done, at least in terms of renovation. It will take years to furnish and decorate at our slow, frugal, and minimalist pace, but we’re okay with that. When you have a stunning view and sun streaming in the windows virtually every day of the year, everything else fades into the background […]
Before and After of the Spanish House
Our house is 90% done, at least in terms of renovation. It will take years to furnish and decorate at our slow, frugal, and minimalist pace, but we’re okay with that. When you have a stunning view and sun streaming in the windows virtually every day of the year, everything else fades into the background […]
March 26, 2014
I Married a Romance Writer (Podcast #55 Melissa and Les Foster)
Married with Luggage, the podcast is a weekly 20-minute podcast with strategies to help you live a life together with more freedom and joy. “We are all fools in love.” ~ Jane Austin Show Notes Episode 55 comes to you from the Andalucia region of Spain. We’re talking about romance and writing this week. We share how […]
March 23, 2014
First Night in Our Spanish House (and a BIG Surprise the Next Morning)
Last week we spent the first night in our new house in Spain. Was it everything we dreamed of? Well, not quite. We arrived back from Norway at about 6 in the evening, and we could hear the work going on upstairs through the open window. We’d been gone for 5 days, the time when […]
March 19, 2014
How Opposites Attract…and Stay Together (Episode #54 with Corbett Barr & Jessalyn Haggenjos)
An Action Plan for Dreamers is a weekly 20-minute podcast with strategies to help you live a life together with more freedom and joy. “There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.” ~ Albert Camus Show Notes You love ‘em and you hate ‘em, sometimes in the […]
March 16, 2014
“Hard to Believe That Was You”
Last week we gave a talk at a web conference in Oslo, Norway about how we run our life and business. During the talk, we ran a slow slideshow of pictures from our travel and work, starting from 2008 when we first decided to make this lifestyle change. Afterward we met many people from the […]
March 12, 2014
Is There a Better Way? A Guide to Simplicity (Podcast #53 with Robert Wall)
An Action Plan for Dreamers is a weekly 20-minute podcast where we we share strategies to help you live a life together with more freedom and joy. “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” ~ Bertrand Russell Show Notes Episode 53 […]
March 8, 2014
A New Goal for Learning a Language Faster
For years I’ve wanted to be able to walk in and carry on a 20 minute conversation with a person in another language. I was a dream of mine to have flowing conversations where I both understand and am understood as we exchange thoughts and ideas. To reach this goal I dove in headfirst with […]
March 5, 2014
Be Comfortable and Proud of Who You Are (Podcast #52 with Denise Jolly)
An Action Plan for Dreamers is a weekly 20-minute podcast where we we share strategies to help you live a life together with more freedom and joy. People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This […]
