Tag Archive: "gratitude"
Happy birthday to Me. Yep, it’s arrived: The Big 5-Oh.
Now there’s a number that screams for extreme measures. So I made a list of, oh, 50 things I might do to commemorate, celebrate, and…
When you gather up your gumption and step off the Reality Train, expect impressions and mindshifts to happen–especially if you’re returning to an idyllic place that’s been home before. Comparisons of “here vs there” are…
What do your Christmas memories look like? With any luck, you see some heartfelt, colorful scenes of gathering, feasting, singing, baking, decorating, giving, gratitude and more. Let’s hope those traditions live on—whatever your beliefs. And…
Last week our friend Emma Gilbey Keller–journalist, bon vivant, supermom, and author of “The Comeback”–began a guest editor position at the XXFactor, a spin-off of Slate.
I’m pleased to announce that Emma invited me and my family to…
Michael Jackson is dead. I have a hard time writing that—because he has been in exile for ages and yet can still touch every living person with his amazing music. In this youtube link, even a church…
For the final Travelog entry, may I present my perfect children. I took hundreds of pictures of them, but published only a few on this website. In this technological era of tell-all exhibitionism and voyeurism, some of…
When Dorothy gushed, “There’s no place like home,” she was not choosing between Caribbean and Cold. But she got home, as have we, and it feels odd as Oz. The kids were elated like Munchkins. The cat was…
On Day 69—the last day—as we prepare to fly away from Temporary Retirement and Approximate Paradise, some stories stand out. Some days still glow. Some moments feel like sprouting soul-seeds rather than mere memories. Like that Sunday on…
When your BreakAway takes you far from your native habitat, some remarkable things happen: Your senses re-awaken. You notice things. And you find grinspiration in the strangest of places.
Having worked as a namesmith, I love that Caribbeans name…
Frustrations proliferate, from kids over-acclimated to island time to music books lost in the mail. Still, we agree with the many (also biased) families we meet who say, “Kids get more education from seeing the…
