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Jacqueline Jannotta

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Let's Leave the Country!: A Guide to Your Family Year Abroad

Let's Leave the Country!: A Guide to Your Family Year Abroad

Extended time outside your country is a fun, rewarding way to gain a fresh perspective and renewed vitality for you and your family.

2019

Jacqueline Jannotta

Jacqueline Jannotta

Stories

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Globetrotters

To Travel or Not to Travel — Is That the Question?

How I’m navigating the ethical dilemma of travel.

Nov 29, 2022

Person silhouetted on a ruin somewhere, in a thinking position.

Nov 29, 2022

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Globetrotters

My Off-Planet Caving Adventure… in Idaho

Craters of the Moon National Monument is not just for astronauts

Oct 21

Large swath of black-ish, volcanic terrain against against a blue sky. In the foreground of the cracked earch are three imperfectly shaped craters where lava has collapsed into the openings.

Oct 21

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Genealogy: Find Your Past

DNA Doesn’t Lie: Discovering a Sperm Donor’s Identity in the Modern Age of Genealogy

The ethical tensions between privacy and truth in family history

Sep 18

The silhouette of a man stands in front of a large lit up screen that shows strips of varying lengths and in hues of pink, green and blue.

Sep 18

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The Motherload

A View of the Empty Nest from Cruising Altitude

The everything, everywhere, all at once of motherhood

Aug 31

A woman, nearly silhouetted, young-ish, stares out the window of an airplane. Tones in photo are mostly greys and blues.

Aug 31

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Globetrotters

When a Travel Adventure Becomes a Metaphor for the Times We Live in

Welcoming the Aha moments that happen at the edge of my comfort zone

Aug 30

Two green rafts ride whitewhater rapids. The raft in the front has four people wearing blue rain jackets and red life vests, while a fourth person wears a bluish-grey life jacket. All are wearing helmets and paddling with oars. The raft in the back is similarly stocked with people, but they are too small to make out. Boulders sit firmly on eithr side of the rafts, green bushes/trees in background.

Aug 30

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Rome Magazine

Saving Democracy One Letter At A Time

Instead of dreading possible outcomes, let’s each do everything we can to make a difference between now and the November election

Jul 11

Saving Democracy One Letter At A Time

Jul 11

Jacqueline Jannotta

First Date Disaster! No Sparks Fly with the ChatGPT Image Creator

It started out fun, but when your date doesn’t make the effort to really listen, maybe it’s time to move on

Jun 20

First Date Disaster! No Sparks Fly with the ChatGPT Image Creator

Jun 20

Jacqueline Jannotta

An Uncommon Path to Italian Citizenship: Women to the Rescue

How I navigated the winding road to dual citizenship — and how others with Italian heritage might do it too

Jun 20

A female superhero in a red, white, and green costume and cape flies over a cathedral and toward the Leaning Tower of Pisa (that is not leaning so much) with an Italian flag flying at the top. In the forefront stands a middle-aged gray haired woman in glasses, and holding a glass of red wine and a burgundy colored passport that says “Passaporto Italia Passporto.” Next to her is an older, smiling grandma with a hat and glasses. Everything is black & white save for the blue sky people/clothes.

Jun 20

Jacqueline Jannotta
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GenTales

Discovering a Forgotten UFO With the Help of an Ancestor Long Gone

Traveling through time portals while dismantling a genealogy brick wall

May 30

Newspaper Image from 1896 shows circular flying machine with propellers and lights over a city. Headlines: “Strange Craft of the Sky” “Sacramento Men Describe the Airship. Claim They Saw Its Occupants and Heard Them in Conversation” and smaller text below.

May 30

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Genealogy: Find Your Past

The Day Grandma Learned the Truth About the Nazis

The importance of drawing out — and sharing — family stories

Apr 19

A black & white vintage photo of barbed wire tangled up around a post that is holding up the remnants of a barbed wire fence.

Apr 19

Jacqueline Jannotta

Jacqueline Jannotta

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Author (“Let’s Leave the Country!”), ex-Hollywood. I write to help us shift from Me to We, toward a better future. BecomingBetterPeople.us.

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