I have the good fortune of being blessed with a mother who listens to my ever changing ideas and when she sees something that might be of interest to me, she sends it my way. So thanks to Mom, I’ll be spending a week living and working on an organic farm run by the Sisters…
Category: Travels
A Writing Retreat
I love that we can learn new things at any age. In my first writing class at the John C. Campbell Folk School two years ago, not one of us had ever before attempted writing our own life stories. And we were a group with participants in their 20’s up into their 70’s. My experience…
Letting go of the past
This wasn’t the first time I’d moved to a town where I knew next to no one. There was a certain thrill of being in a brand new in a place. The idea of starting over, of letting go of the past and moving full force into an unknown future. I’m aware that not everyone…
I Think I’ll Go to Boston…
It took a long time to learn, but what they say is true: Mom is usually right. This lesson is often earned only after going completely against her advice numerous times. On rare occasions though, a child triumphs and gets to say, “Ha! I was right!” It doesn’t happen that often, so when it does…
How I Got Here – The Europe trip
In October of 1999, I got an e-mail about an airfare sale. It was from a company specializing in travel for folks under 26 years of age and at the time I was 23. My desire to study abroad in college was shot down long ago, but here I saw an opportunity. I wanted to…
On Inspiring Words
I opened the mailbox the other day to find just three things in it – and all were for me. This is unusual as I share my mailbox with my neighbors across the hall. Not only were all three things for me, but they were all things I was happy to have received. Two were…
The OK Clean Water Project
I have written a few times about my bike ride across Iowa in July, 2004. However, there’s a little more to that story I wanted to share. When people heard I was doing the trip, the first question was usually, “Is it a fundraiser?” As if saying, “Because why else would anyone choose to ride…
Signs
A few weeks ago, I wrote about buying some of the first supplies for my Camino trip. I still have not picked dates or solidified anything, but have had a few signs that my timing is perfect. In yesterday’s mail I received the quarterly newsletter from the Congregation of Notre Dame. My first experience with…
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