You’re traveling merrily along toward a new and exciting destination, smiling brightly and humming tunes while waving at strangers, pausing to kiss cute babies and literally stopping to smell the roses. Then, suddenly, darkness descends. Crashes of thunder rip through your ears. In the next moment you find yourself bleeding and whimpering in the bottom [...]

When I was a little girl, I would arise very early each Easter Sunday for the purpose of crouching and crawling my way through the house in search of multi-colored hardboiled eggs smashed between sofa cushions, thrust into the fireplace, and rolled under beds. It was not just a privilege but a duty to collect [...]

I traveled last week to Colorado, so I find it fitting to recount one of my previous trips to this Southwestern state, when I spent the night at a landmark in the Rocky Mountains called The Stanley Hotel. The Shining plays non-stop on Channel 42 in this hotel as guests set up video cameras to [...]

Nighttime has arrived in this city and I am standing on the sidewalk, alone. Locals burst past from all directions, their faces blasé with the familiarity of their surroundings as the busyness of their lives pushes them toward their evening destinations. These people are the vibe of the streets. On this, my first night in [...]

A long time ago I chose my current location with purpose, yearning for somewhere prettier than where I lived, a new home that was better, more exciting. More me. Moving across the country I found it here, just as I knew I would, amidst the dichotomy of bucolic hills of green mixed up with the [...]

The weekend has arrived. Full of fun…full of despair…full of whatever you decide. No matter what’s going on in your life this weekend, surely at some point you’ll be in movie-watching mode. Here I share with you my top ten favorite foreign travel films of all time. Maybe you’ll find one that will become your [...]

Spring fever has begun to travel across my mind. As I sit locked inside – safe, warm and dry from the cold rain that’s beat against my house for three days, my mind travels back to just last week, a week packed with days that begged me to go outside. Bicycle riding in the woods [...]