I had to call in to work with a stomach ache this morning, so have been diligent with my get-better-quick scheme of plentiful sleep, copious hydration, and gulps of fresh air. On my afternoon walking dose of outdoors, I noted plentiful signs that the autumnal scale is waxing ever nearer to winter (here in Polar,…

We have a fascinating tendency to divide things into finite pieces - to create starts and ends to things otherwise continuous – in some sort of vain attempt to organize and tangible-ize things that are not easily grasped. We view infinity from the point at which we stand. We choose points on a circle. We…

I've climbed in the cloud forests of Colombia, marveled at marble palaces in the Moscow Metro, safaried on the savanna of East Africa, and summited peaks of Down Under. But there is never a place that compares to home. 🙂 Coming home generally involves hugs and hellos (yay!), unpacking (yuck), and reminiscing. Here are a…