Aloha and Holo Holo

One week ago, I was set free from my hip-to-ankle knee brace prison, which broke my entire leg out in a rash and which had to be locked into...

*This is a deviation from my vacation postings. We're still cruising down the Alaska Highway, and I'll get back to that soon, but to...

More times than I can count over the course of the last 14 years--my parenting years--I have heard words coming out of my mouth, directed at...

On October 30, 2015, my sister's home was destroyed by a tornado, while she and two of her kids hunkered down inside. Thankfully, they w...

The world seems so dark and crazy and broken and negative. It seems we are constantly inundated with bad news. I admit, I have a sensitivity...

I have always believed in rainbows. They represent a promise of hope for the future. They whisper, "You made it through the storm, and...

A couple of days ago, Jeff came in and cheerfully announced that it was just 12 days until we would be back in the States. It was an innocen...

Claycito, You are five today! And, it's also the one year anniversary of the start of our RTW trip. You are a trooper and are always u...

Sadly, our time in Koh Samui has come to an end. Our time here has been sweet beyond words and will always be fondly remembered, and, hopefu...

In Spain, New Year's Eve is called "Nochevieja," which comes from bygone days of calling it "Old Year's Night."...

Ever have a day (or week, or month, or year) when you're extra hormonal, or stressed, or maybe just too tired to fight off the negative ...

When you travel, you run into all kinds of people--people from everywhere. Today, we literally ran into a man from Austin, TX. Or, rather, h...

New normals are our new normal, and, as I mentioned in a post the other day, flexibility is the name of the game. Situations we could not h...

We recently stayed in a house that didn't have a mirror in one of the bathrooms. And, every time I went in there, something just seemed ...

Tonight is our last night in our house. The house we built, and have loved, and have created so many memories in. We will spend the next few...

Unbelievably, the boys and I attended our last class day of CC yesterday. (Ruth will complete her semester next Tuesday.) CC has been such a...

This past weekend has been marked on the calendar for a while as the time when most of the remaining stuff must go, because we didn't wa...

For much of the time Jeff and I were dating, we were in a long-distance relationship, and we only saw each other on weekends, if that often....

We walked down the beach, his three steps to my one. I offered to carry the blue bucket to collect our treasures, but he insisted he carry i...

I was just barely 24 and was using the time while I was trying to "find myself" to volunteer at a local hospital. On Tuesdays, I h...