A Hike To Remember I am in The Netherlands in May, when my friend Vanessa sends me a text. Do I have June 20 off? I tell her I don't but I can take it off. She has a credit for...
Sunshine And Fun The Snyman's graciously invited me to spend the 4th of July with them at Rhona's brother Noel and sister-in-law Helena's house at Orange Lake, upstate New York. So on the morning of July 4, I board the train...
Can You Imagine Happy Life Of Not Having Children? Not having children can be a quiet sadness that is always there in the background. Because it is so much bigger than becoming or being a mother. It hits in different phases...
The Marin headlands are just a little north of the metropolitan city of San Francisco, but once you pass the Richmond bridge and drive on the narrow winding roads of Marin Headlands, you enter a totally different world of sleepy...
How The Road To EBC Began Patagonia and Mount Kilimanjaro had been on my bucket list for years. On the contrary, Everest Base Camp was not something I had ever aspired to. And here I am, signed up with Ian Taylor Trekking....
For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it – Amanda Gorman. I flew back from Europe on New Year’s Eve, just in time to raise a glass...
We had planned a reunion with friends from the Netherlands in Iceland in 2020, but COVID threw a wrench in that. So we decided we would make it happen for Thanksgiving 2021. During my last trip to Iceland in March 2015,...
The little 8-person plane from Cape Air flies me from Boston to Nantucket. It is a short 45-minute flight. Before I know it, I am in a taxi on my way to our hotel. Excited I point out The Club...
In 2019, I stayed in Sequoia High Sierra Camp for the first time. The only reservation we could get was for 2 nights. We had a wonderful time, but it felt too rushed and too short. So when we were...
When I got an offer from Marriott Vacation club for a three night stay in their Newport Coast Villas, we turned it into a culinary adventure, exploring SoCal. I had been to Newport once on a business trip and had...
