What do you do when you’ve discovered that your relationship with your partner is deteriorating because you spend too much time online or watching television? My husband and I have developed some bad habits regarding spending quality time together. He sits in his favorite chair watching Youtube videos, and I spend a lot of time…
Writing daily allows me a framework to categorize what is the most meaningful moment I’ve experienced in the last 24 hours. Some days, I have to dig deep to find the moment, or series of moments. Because of that, I am finding that I’m making different decisions daily than I used to so that I…
It’s funny how the things we have a lifelong aversion to, return to us as our teacher. This morning, I set out for my 2 mile walk along an Arkansas county highway that is near my late mother’s and stepfather’s home. As I was mid-way into my walk, the early morning humid air carried the…
Yesterday, we stopped by the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve on our way to Amarillo, Texas on the first leg of our trip back home. The dunes are massive. They are a living geometry of wind, gravity and time. I felt like I was standing in a sine wave, watching the slowed down…
I’ve had a wonderful week in Colorado, and I’m sad to put it in my rear-view mirror, but it’s time to get back to my life in Virginia. The perspective that different landscapes offer me emotionally is why I travel, and I feel more at home with myself now that I’ve had my fix of…
I prefer to travel where the pavement ends and my phone says, “No Service”. Let me also add, as long as I am in a high clearance 4-Wheel drive vehicle. For the last four years, my step-father and I have headed out West to explore forest service roads that lead to spectacular ruins and scenery….
The river gave me more than a view yesterday…it handed me back my joy. I’ve always loved to fish. When I was a little girl, and dad told me he was going fishing early in the morning, I would get dressed and sleep in my clothes so he wouldn’t leave me behind. Not that he…
