The priceless approval of a twelve-year-old.
Category: Travel
We’re All In This Together
Becoming an honorary Puerto Rican.
Bulgaria to Oregon, a Roma Adoption Story
One little girl's journey from an orphanage crib to a family farm.
One-Heart Bulgaria, Aid for Roma Mothers
An effort to bring education and empowerment to Eastern Europe's most impoverished women.
Scared Shitless
Experiences in adult potty training, a reflection on the little moments that shape us.
Let it Last
This time I came crawling back. Head down, slow approach, looking up shyly for permission. Respectfully I reach out to touch, I understand the distrust. For how many times have I run off to taste some other flavor of myself. For how many times have I bounded back. High on promise, loaded with gifts of … Continue reading Let it Last
Cherry Tree
Visits home, and learning to become a conscious contributor to the places I travel.
Dwelling in Ireland
Continued from - "I Am a Writer" And so I'm in Europe, my first time, arrived by epic adventure across an ocean, served on a small wooden-boat shaped platter, and all I could do was huddle against the damp Irish chill in my father’s down sleeping bag, glued to Caribbean weather reports on the screen … Continue reading Dwelling in Ireland
Newfoundland, Canada
Continued from - "Through the Fog, Provincetown to Newfoundland" We motored into St. John's Harbor among massive tankers and rickety old fishing boats to the biggest town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Houses on hills, ships, tall banks and hotels. At 250,000 people, this town boomed when oil boomed, and has since dried up … Continue reading Newfoundland, Canada
I Am A Writer
“A story is a meaningful pattern of events. Through finding a story’s shape within your life’s shape, you could know what your life means.” It’s 4:45. Something woke me. I think my phone buzzed, and now I have to pee. I duck out of the mosquito net and cross the sagging, uneven plywood floor, just … Continue reading I Am A Writer
