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I am not sure who said it – who to attribute it to. It is printed on the wall of my nutritionist’s office and every time I see it, it causes me to pause and ponder. I actually do understand the [...]

Is it possible for us to be ourselves, bare to the world regardless of which situation we find ourselves in?  For example, are you the same person at 6am drinking your first cup of coffee with [...]

I walked into the ladies’ room at work the other day and two distinct thoughts instantly popped into my head: 1) the cleaning crew had just been in and 2) my brother died from cancer. [...]

February is an emotionally charged month. It is all about journeys of the heart.  All the commercials say so – for diamonds, for chocolate, for flowers…  such a lovely cliché, “journeys of the [...]

When I asked my kids about their favorite and least favorite aspects of our recent road trip, I got: “The oil fields were interesting.” “There were weapons sold at every rest stop!” “I wish I had [...]

There comes a point where paths don’t merely cross, they collide. New Orleans is one of those collision points.  It’s where the French and Spanish collided in the Rebellion of 1768. [...]

Cruising to San Antonio – a short drive that day, less than three hours from desolate Sonora – I listened to my offspring share what they knew about the history of the Alamo. [...]

“Stop touching my stuff!” “I don’t want to go.” “Do we have to actually look at it?” “Get your stuff off my seat!” From the spectacular caves [...]

Miles and miles of Texas oilfields. Endless horizon of hazy clouds.  An even, steady whirring comes from the backseat where my youngest is snoring.  My oldest is also dozing back there, [...]

Day Two: The Truth is Out There Like Mulder, we want to believe. Like Scully, we can’t quite get there. We rolled into Roswell, New Mexico, ready to try, though. Roswell is not on the [...]