Category: Travel
Posts on travel as practice — pilgrimage, the Camino, place-based spirituality, and what becomes available when you let geography rearrange you.
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Hurricane Isaac Evacuation and Lessons from the Camino
Hurricane Isaac evacuation time? Yes? No? I’ve lived in the Niceville-Destin Florida area of the Gulf Coast since 1983, so I’m accustomed to making decisions about tropical storm and hurricane evacuations. By the time any tropical storm is at the door of the Gulf of Mexico, I have to start thinking about whether to stay…
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Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Find What You Focus On…Good or Bad
Why did we get so upset last week? It wasn’t like him at all to behave the way I’d thought, and it wasn’t like me at all to behave the way he’d thought. It was like other people, though, and it was exactly like our worst fears, and that’s what we saw. It doesn’t really…
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Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: Romantic Relationships
For those of you who have been patiently waiting this last month for me to blog about my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, thanks for waiting! My boyfriend had been right: this journey was to be “an inflection point” in my life. Not a term I would have used but hey, engineers…what can I…
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Happy Solstice!
What a very interesting Summer Solstice Day it’s been! The bad first, then the good. From the Bookshelf The Book of Heroes — a paranormal thriller where books are alive and the librarian is not what she seems. Available direct from the author → Or read it free in my online Library. Lots of wild…
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Making Memories
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. Sometimes it’s important to list the memories you make. Every special event or family vacation should be memorialized as soon after as possible, not just in photos but in phrases that capture the moments. + The “balloon man” at TGIFridays told the girls he…
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Mid-Life Options: Where Do We Go from Here?
Life is wide open and full of options. And I don’t really know where to go from here. I don’t recall ever having so many options open for me at 18 or 25 or 30. Back then, I felt–and was often told–that I have so terribly many alternatives for my future but that I would…
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Having a Family Is Not an Excuse for “No”
One of my colleagues, when she was 8 months pregnant, was asked with great disdain why she would consider having a child and didn’t she know that having a family life would hurt her career as a contract negotiator? I wanted to think we’d come a lot farther in women’s equality, especially since I’ve never…
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Fulfilling Childhood Dreams
After listening to Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture audiobook, I started thinking about my own childhood dreams and whether I’d achieved them. Most, I have, but of course, I’m not stopping there. I added to the Dream List throughout my teen years and throughout my adult life, so I have no plans of quitting now.…
