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“The world is a book. People who don’t travel read only one page.” ––St. Augustine Note: For more current writings, musings, and journeys of a different kind, join me at my [...]

“Instead of thinking about the myriad negative feelings you want to avoid and the myriad things you can buy or do in service of that, think about a single organizing principle that is [...]

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” –Rumi. On a whim, my husband and I decided to book a cute AirB&B at one of our favorite places: Cape Cod. With vaccinations in full swing [...]

“We never ever need to improve ourselves. We just need to return to ourselves.”–Glennon Doyle. 2020. What a wild, turbulent ride it has been! As I write this, the carefree days of a year ago feel [...]

Do you ever have those special-occasion days that end up unraveling into an emotional heap?  Whether you are in the middle of a holiday season or not, may this excerpt from A Year to Clear [...]

“Teach me old woods to wither glad.”–Danish hymn by Adam Oehlenschläger, 1813 Years ago while on sabbatical in Mexico, my family and I befriended an expatriate Swedish author. Though [...]

“It’s not just about food. It’s not just about of a restaurant. It’s about something more.”– Chef’s Table Here’s a photo of my morning coffee – being [...]

“Eucatastrophes are sudden, unexpected, but perfectly logical-in-hindsight explosions of good.”–Author unknown. There’s a word for it: Eucatastrophe. Though it’s not the [...]

“One could say that going through loss is the great awakener. It is a potential opening if you don’t run away from it. What is usually condemned as ‘bad’ by the mind and [...]

The video below has a great deal of significance for me for many reasons: Though it’s super short, it still manages to showcase some of my favorite photographs of Day of Dead in San Miguel [...]