Category Archives: Travel

“So, I Planned a Trip. . . “

Last month I wrote about a minor emotional breakdown I experienced when I began writing down Charlie’s new soccer schedule and saw, in black and white, the way our lives would change with junior high. If you’ve spent any amount of time reading here, you know that I quite easily fall prey to my emotional...

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New York City: The Experience

Sometime, in the months after my Mom died, (because my life is divided into two segments–before my Mom died and after.) Chad and I had a lengthy conversation about gift-giving and our children. The conversation happened in the weeks leading up to Christmas. We had two kids at the time. One had just turned 5,...

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We Keep Going Back

Whenever I write about New York, I listen to Alicia Key’s Empire State of Mind on repeat. My sister would shame me and tell me that I should be listening to Sinatra, but to each their own. So, as I write this I hear Alicia pound the keys while singing about a pocket full of dreams,...

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New York

I have not traveled too much in my life, but my feet have touched plenty of sandy beaches and my face as felt the warmth of the hot sun in January. I’ve listened to the crashing waves of the ocean and I’ve seen tall buildings in a few cities.  Still nothing draws me back like...

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