Tag Archive: "gratitude"
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
After 18 dreamy days, it’s time to depart this Paradise. Happily, the BreakAway is not over; we set sail for Grenada at 7 am. But like most…
