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#85| Go Someplace!

March 26, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Travel Thursday, so you know what that means.

It’s time for our weekly check-in to see where you are on your travel plans.

We believe the Dalai Lama is on to something:

“Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before.”

Neicy and Jeff Aldrich, who have been married more than 20 years, certainly believe in taking vacations.

They met because she was friendly enough to say “Hi!”

To read their story, click here.

The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing 365 days of inspiration in 2015. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and inspired by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#77| Cruising

March 19, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Travel Thursday.

Mary Ellen and Dakota Danuser are Swirling and living the good life.

Here they are on a sunset cruise in Cabo San Lucas.

Cruising is . . . a very viable travel option.

Make your reservations yet?

By the way, Mary Ellen and Dakota are 50+!

To learn more about their story, click here.

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#71| Get Moving!

March 12, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Sometimes you have to go – just for the sake of going.

Sometimes you have to move – just for the sake of moving.

Sometimes you have to travel – just for the sake of traveling.

Sometimes you have to get moving for the sake of something as complex as getting out of your comfort zone – or as simple as getting up off your couch.

Are your travel plans set? What’s it going to take for you to get moving?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

Copyright ©2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, The Swirl World Inspiration Daily™, All rights reserved. Photo copyright ©2009 Michelle Matthews Calloway.

#69| A Sense Of Adventure

March 10, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Just imagine how different your day would be if you approached it with a sense of adventure and anticipation.

See how that thought changed your perspective?

So . . . what kind of adventure will we have today?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#65| Where You Need To Be

March 6, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

So, what progress have you made with your “I’m traveling this year” plans?

Did you know after today, there are only 300 days left in 2015?

In regards to your plans, are you where you need to be?

If you need ~~a good push~~ additional inspiration, listen to this podcast, Black Women Need to Travel, recorded with Interracial Dating Coach Lorraine Spencer of Interracial Marriage and Family. You can listen on iTunes or Sound Cloud.

This year, be determined to get where you need to be – traveling!

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Hey, we’d love to feature YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#36| Eyes Wide Open

February 5, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s February 5 – have you created your travel vision board yet?

It’s “Travel Thursday” and we want to inspire you to not just dream about taking a trip or going on vacation this year, but actually do it.

Need some additional inspiration? Click here to listen to a podcast with Lorraine Spencer concerning the importance of traveling.

Let 2015 be the year you have your eyes wide open for opportunities to save money for your trip.

Sure, a new handbag, shoes or jewelry is a great pick-me-up. Eventually, the newness will wear out and those items will become old.

The sense of adventure, joys and well-being gained from travel – these intrinsic aspects of the experience will last forever.

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We’re featuring photos of Swirling Singles the entire month of February.

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

We’d love to feature YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

#35| Let’s Have Some Fun!

February 4, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s the middle of the work week. The weekend is close – yet so far away.

Do you wait until the weekend to have some fun, or have you mastered the art of enjoying life enough to have fun regardless of the day of the week?

I dare you to do something fun – today.

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We’re featuring photos of Swirling Singles the entire month of February.

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

We’d love to feature YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

#22 | Let’s Have Lunch . . . .

January 22, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

. . . in Rome, Italy!

Or Paris, France . . . Stockholm, Sweden . . . London, England . . . . Sydney, Australia . . . .

Have you started on the Travel Vision Board we talked about in last week’s Travel Thursday post (#15)?

If not, what are you waiting for? Let’s go!

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If you’d like to share your photos, please send them to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com. We’d love to feature YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

#15 | Life’s A Beach!

January 15, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Yesterday at noon here in the United States, the temperature in Lafayette, LA was 37° Fahrenheit. (The expected high was 46° F; I don’t think we reached it).

Chicago’s noon temperature was 16°, and with the wind chill it felt like 14°. And in Fairbanks, Alaska? A frigid 10°.

And yet, across the world at Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Western Australia, it was a balmy 72° F, and surfing enthusiasts could check the surf forecast.

For them right now, life’s a beach!

Now, close your eyes, and imagine the moon over Cottesloe Beach. Isn’t it time we did some traveling?

The inspiring Rosetta Thurman of Happy Black Woman just posted a feature article entitled, “Four Steps to Creating an Online Travel Vision Board.” I strongly advise you to check it out!

Let’s set up a board so we can get up and get out – I’d love to see the moon rise in another location, wouldn’t you?

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If you’d like to share your photos, please send them to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com. We’d love to feature YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts!

Copyright ©2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, The Swirl World Inspiration Daily™, All rights reserved. Photo of Cottlesloe Beach Copyright ©2015 John Miecovich. Used with permission.

He Shoved An Oreo Cookie In My Mouth!

August 9, 2014 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

We’ve been podcasting since June 9, and one of the things I’ve learned is this: Sometimes the best conversations take place before we record the show, or immediately after.

The Swirl World Podcast Men’s Editor Mark Custard and I were fortunate to enjoy an impromptu, “after the show” conversation with Alida Wright Sharp and Tom, her husband of 32 years.

Alida was featured on Podcast Episode 20. She told us how they met at age 15: “He shoved an Oreo® cookie in my mouth!”

Her husband Tom was in the room listening while Alida did the show, so we were able to snag him and get him to tell us what was going on in his 15-year old mind.

As hilarious as his explanation was, the conversation took a serious turn as we moved to a discussion of resistance to their interracial marriage by the clergy and family members alike.

Alida and Tom also shared instances of colorism experienced in Russia by their two sons – one blue-eyed, and the other brown-eyed.

Who could have known an impromptu conversation about Oreo® cookies could turn this deep??

You can listen to the episode on Sound Cloud:

To find Alida on the web, you can contact her via her record company by clicking here.

Send her a friend request on Facebook by clicking here.

Follow her on Twitter @AlidasTurn, on Tumbler at MsAlida and on Instagram at Ms.Alida.

Tom and Alida’s mission agency:

DBR Ministries for Tom and Alida Sharp

P.O. Box 279 Sanford, NC, 27330

919-478-6237 Phone 919-718-0350 FAX

Email: dbrministries@yahoo.com

Donations of any size are greatly appreciated!

If you would like to give a simple gift directly to Alida and Tom you may do so through PayPal. Just use the email address alidasmail@gmail.com.

Want to be a guest on the podcast, or know someone who should? Send an email to Podcast@TheSwirlWorld.com. Be sure to “Like” The Swirl World on Facebook and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. You can also follow us on Sound Cloud and listen to the show on Stitcher Radio!

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