Ancient Wisdom
When I moved to Bolivia in 1990, words like scrolling and apps and social media were yet to be conjured up. There were no notifications […]
Meandering through Mexico
This is my sixth trip to Mexico since my first time here in 2018. Besides the butterflies and writing conference, I’ve been meandering through San […]
This is Real
The audience erupted in applause as soon as the translator finished relaying what Pastor Ignacio had said in Spanish. “The US doesn’t need a businessman […]
Playing with Writing
This is how you attend your first “professional” writing conference. You will browse the conference website for weeks, intrigued by the caliber of authors who […]
Generations in Flight: What the Monarchs Taught Me
“What has been your favorite non-monarch highlight so far?” asked one of the two Jeffs on our trip. This was the younger Jeff, the psychiatrist […]
A Thousand Words?
At first I didn’t think much of the photo above as I was swiping through my phone. It’s just one of hundreds I take every […]
Copper to Gold: A Transformation
There were a lot of reasons not to join Copper to Gold, a sixteen-week online anti-racism class being offered for the first time to a […]
Vermont Times
A few thoughts and lots of photos from my time house sitting in Vermont. 100+ Years Ago I learned something about Pullman Porters years ago […]
Vermont Scenes
On Set “Would you like to see the inside?” the woman asked as she unloaded her Subaru in front of a church in the center […]
Better than the Amazing Race
“What a ridiculous show,” was my first thought when The Amazing Race came out many years ago. Why travel around the world to spend just […]
7 Surprising Observations about the Galápagos
If you’d asked me a week ago if I was the type of person who would swim with sharks, I’d have answered with an emphatic […]
In Between
Not every moment of travel can be as thrilling as hiking to Choquequirao or visiting friends in Brazil and Chile or hanging out in Rio […]
Choque-Carry-On
While scrubbing five days of mud, sweat, sunscreen and insect repellant off of my body I felt identical bulges on the back of each leg. […]
Arequipa
“Yes, stay,” is what “Ari qhipay” means in Quechua. One legend says that the name for the city came from this answer that was given […]
Ground Control to Señor Tim
A train trip I took from Denver to Salt Lake City last year made me feel like I was on another planet. The landscapes in […]
Feels Like Bolivia
Prepare the Cabin “Flight attendants, prepare the cabin for crossing the Andes.” In all my years of flying I have never heard such an announcement. […]