Mar 2, 2016 | travel & adventure
You know I love playing along with Australian blogger Fat Mum Slim’s Photo-a-Day prompts on Instagram. It encourages me to keep my eyes open to all the beautiful and interesting in the world around me. For February, I’ve cheated a bit and rebuilt my month...
Feb 29, 2016 | travel & adventure
We are travelers, my husband and I, people who place a priority on seeing as much of the world as we can. It’s something I learned about him the first night we met as he described a competition he and his sister have had for years: Let’s see who can...
Feb 24, 2016 | travel & adventure
It was a treat–lunch at this lovely restaurant on a lovely Hawaiian island on the most lovely vacation of my life. The view was exquisite, the food truly divine. But what most captivated me was the trio at the table just to our right. Seated there were a...
Feb 13, 2016 | travel & adventure
I’m on vacation. In Hawaii. And I (sort of) vowed to (sort of) stand down from a lot of social media activity. This hasn’t exactly happened. For instance, I have posted photos to Instagram about a thousand times a day. I mean, how can I not? I’m in...
Jan 18, 2016 | travel & adventure
I was in the city for a conference, three days learning from saints who devote their days (and nights) to addressing the very challenging issue of children, poverty and homelessness. More than 600 people from six countries were gathered, and the experience was, in a...
Aug 2, 2015 | travel & adventure
I made a trip to the South Carolina coast today for the funeral of a dear friend’s father. She’s the kind of person who makes my life better just by being in it, in a thousand beautiful ways, so it was important to me that I be there. What made the long...
