Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur
Hand unsteady from this height – or maybe, influenced by a bottle of London Gin (shared, not entirely self-consumed) – I struggled to frame our view…
Travel Films For A Quarter-Life Crisis
Pulling popular titles from several different age ranges, the following collection covers our physical and philosophical journey past that 25-year mark.
After all, we ask the same questions on birthdays and vacations: Where do I want to go next, and how can I get there?
30 Years In Paradise (On Celebrating Birthdays Abroad)
“30 years is not worth a night of misery,” I insisted, predicting a speedy transition from rustic to agonizing in this weather.
New Zealand had given me snow topped mountains for my birthday. An environment better spent in private chilly reflection, wishing for woolen socks and the chance to be 25 again.
Reasons To Love Small Town New Zealand (29 And Counting)
How do you measure the smallness of a town? Count the blocks between its borders, the farm animals grazing in residential front yards? Or how often “the usual” gets ordered at the corner cafe?
A Traveler’s Christmas Wish
So as December 25th looms in New Zealand, I wonder about traditions: about this invisible baggage that’s so often heavier than the backpacks we carry – and a thousand times more valuable than every personal possession inside.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement
How brilliant would the calendar be if we considered every year an achievement to celebrate, and not just an acknowledgement of impending wrinkles?
10 Books To Honor Veterans Day And The Burma Campaign
Somewhere beyond the fence of trees, their branches growing in links of green and brown, lies a graveyard. We can see no marble headstones, no dried flowers or markers of […]
Too Mutch For Words 