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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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. Lots of wild energies, including another theft from inside my front yard, which explains why Grendel’s been living up to his name recently, oh he of the ferocious barks. I’ve lived in the same house for almost 13 years and …
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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.…
