There are so many lessons to be learned when traveling to foreign countries, in particular, developing countries. I wrote last week about traveling for the first time as the mother of (and with) young children to Nicaragua. I am still here in Nicaragua as I...
I read an article a couple of weeks ago that won't stop buzzing around in my brain like an irritating house fly. I feel the urge to pick at it like a ripe scab; take it apart, exam its premise and file it under nonsense....
A good friend of mine posted this quote on her Facebook wall a couple of weeks ago and I have been thinking about it since: If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are...
I grew up traipsing through the woods. We called them "woods," my friends and I, but really, they were just a dense strip of trees big enough to hide in when the leaves were full in the summer, and small enough to see to the other side in...