Goodness reaches out. She extends her hand in welcome, her handshake soft, tentative, her skin, as lovely, raw and wind-scraped as the land around her. I like her already. Goodness is her name. She is…
Impressive, daunting, and vast, Europe’s capital cities can be overwhelming, especially to first-time visitors. Faced with a limited amount of time to explore, you feel stressed from the get-go just trying to fit in all…
Every place has a history, but in Ireland the past seems more tangible. Maybe it’s because the people still feel connected to the past, to the hardships and struggles their countrymen and women endured. But…
The animal market in Otavalo, is a tapestry in motion, a colorful, textured, noisy tapestry that has no beginning and no end. Peter, my husband, and I perched on a ridge above the cacophony and just…
I have always been enamored of France. I love Edith Piaf, the art of the Impressionists, café society, crusty baguettes and lusty Brie, strong French coffee, accordion music, the lilting language, the hearty abandon with…
Verdant, flowering shrubs lined the path as my husband, Peter, and I strolled under Ecuador’s evening sky. Our friend Nik pointed to the upside-down moon overhead. “The moon looks different down here,” he said. We…
A warm rain began to fall moments after my husband and I sat down on a terrace overlooking the Amstel River in Amsterdam. Instead of scrambling for a seat inside, Peter and I waited while…
I always believed I was my father’s favorite child. I’m sure each of my siblings believed that, too, but I was altogether certain he loved me best. Perhaps that’s why, like a balloon popped by…
Just before dawn, the dark streets of Amman feel more cool than dusty, like the way clay feels cold in your hands. The windows of my hotel room are cranked open to the sky. Soon…
Inside a cylindrical glass tower 20 stories high, my husband, Peter, and I twirled in a modern merry-go-round. But instead of prancing ponies and graceful swans, 400 colorful, new Volkswagens, fresh from the Wolfsburg factory,…