Croatia memories. People. Strangers. Fleeting moments. Travel seems to compress life yet also rearrange it in our memories. I take a ridiculous amount of photos on my iPhone when I travel because I know only one photo in five…
Reflections
The brand new Amanda Gorman mural—located on the side of a townhouse in an alley off 17th Street between Q and Corcoran Street in Washington, DC—is a sunbeam. The entire side of the brick building is painted yellow. The…
One year after the shutdown began in March 2020: I think about the craziest things when I take my daily long walks but I think earth’s the right place for love. Honesty, I am filled with this sentiment as…
Happy May! It’s a new month. It’s a new restart to my life (and yours). I didn’t plan to write a blog this week. Now in week 7 of working at home and sheltering, my life is lived small.…
Pandemic Reflection: The Tulips Make Me Want To See
My pandemic reflection is late in being published. I try to regularly publish a weekly article. But it hard to be inspired right now. I didn’t write my weekly blog until Sunday morning because nothing is happening in my…
The virtues of solo walks became crystal clear to me after COVID. With orders to stay in shelter, the only way to go outside is exercising. My only travel consists of getting up extra early to walk to the…
I need a place where I can hide under the canopy of trees. As a child, the woods were my place to escape and daydream. My spirit always yearns to dwell in nature’s outdoor cathedrals—places of soaring sky, rough-hewn…
My travel blog turned one year old in September 2019. I can’t really believe that I finally did it. You know how you promise yourself that you are going to do something . . . (insert a personal dream)…