Why I Travel

“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 [...]

Clearing Out Years of Stuff: How We Did It

“…an old No Fear ad campaign says, ‘the one who dies with the most toys still dies.’ But instead of heeding this simple wisdom, we continue filling our pockets with rocks [...]

Taming of the Shelf

It all began with a wonder question posed by my husband as we contemplated what to do with the cluttered bookcase that takes up an entire wall in our 1875 home: Why would we keep a book? This [...]

Making Room for What Matters

When things aren’t adding up in your life, start subtracting. –Unknown ‘Tis the season… when all of our good intentions go out the window. With the holidays come and gone, it is [...]

Getting my Vaccine: A Clearing Story

Here I am getting my Covid vaccine. The story I want to tell you, though, is not about getting the shot so much as clearing the noise and uncertainties I carried around that led up to it. [...]

On Becoming

“You can’t force a rosebud to blossom by beating it with a hammer.” –Rachel Naomi Remen, MD In our home in Mexico we had a bougainvillea varietal that had no blooms. No matter [...]