“What do you think about when you’re listening?” I asked my Mom during intermission. We were at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Muti, Uchida & Mozart. […]
Enchanted Rock
There is a ghost story about Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hill Country. A Native American brought his daughter to the summit and sacrificed her […]
Camping at the Renaissance Faire
This weekend I camped out at the Sherwood Renaissance Faire. If you’ve never done this, here’s the short version: sleeping in the woods, drinking mead, crowns and corsets and swords, live jousting, people watching, turkey legs, horning beers, shopping for quill sets and dragon glasses, rude humor, clan parties, more mead, more food, more woods.
One Version of Someday
More advice from my father: it’s better to make a plan and deviate from it than to have no plan at all.
Austin to Atlanta
Traveling alone in the past has felt a little lonely to me. In college, it was a zone between worlds. My family and my fiance in one state. My friends and my burgeoning self in the other. No matter which way the plane flew I was leaving something behind.
Airport Gratitude List
A travel day, today, running on airplane sleep and pain medication residue. I am exhausted waiting for my connecting flight at DFW and would be […]
In Maui, Pt II
We leave Maui today. After nine nights with my family in Kihei we’re headed out on a red-eye tonight and, with luck, I’ll be rolling […]
In Maui
Right now I’m in the midst of my first Maui vacation with my family. We flew in this last Thursday and made our way to a condo in Kihei where we are to spend nine nights (four down, five to go).