I don’t just travel because I love to go to places. No, I also travel because I absolutely love flying. Not everything about it, of course. I’m not a huge fan of turbulence, and the whole airport scene can be trying, to say the least. And, oh my goodness, there’s not much worse than a…
Month: February 2018
New York City, January 2017.
In all my crazy during the past year, with a timeline in my head that is marked as BF and AF (Before February and After February, centered around losing mom to cancer), I had completely forgotten about a pretty amazing trip that I took last January with my then 13 year old son. Yes, one…
Colorado in August.
Last year was a pretty good travel year, looking back on it (we won’t count either January or February of 2017, when the only traveling I did was to the cancer center in Dallas. Or the year before that.) Chile in March, Park City, Utah, in April, St. Martin in May, San Francisco in June,…
One year ago, a different kind of journey.
One year ago, on this day, my mother died in my arms. That is not a metaphor, nor am I speaking figuratively. My mother quite literally died in my arms. And the crazy thing is that I’d been praying, begging even, for that moment to come. And I don’t feel guilty about that, not at…
Ten Million Miles.
“Here I am in younger days, stargazing, painting picture perfect maps, of how my life and love would be. Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection, my compass, faith in love’s perfection, I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen.” The Indigo Girls, Love’s Recovery. Is there anybody out there who is…
Ten Million Miles 