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When am I healed?

Ya know how clothing stores often design one shirt then offer it in multiple colors? Black, white, some sort of neutral brown, then a range of colors — red, pink, blue, maybe purple or green? Well. I’ve spent the last 15 some odd years shopping on auto-pilot, buying black if it was an option, moving [...]

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Grand Re-Opening | Spotlight: Life List

Sometimes I fantasize of a world in which living out my life list is my job. In my daydream, someone somewhere is willing to pay me to tackle one adventure after the next — and write about it. I travel the world, meet fascinating people, try new things, laugh a lot, and have an incredible [...]

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Here’s to the Losers

It’s as if Seth and Kristen were singing just for me. {If you didn’t stay awake long enough to watch the Sinatra-spoof, closing number at The Oscars check it out here: http://starcrush.com/2013-oscars-closing-heres-to-the-losers/} I used to have my finger on the pulse of Hollywood — as much as anyone in the Central Time Zone can. It [...]

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When you’re hot, you’re hot.

This year, I resolved to “revive my life list” and tackle one adventure each month of 2013. Here we are on January 31st and I’ll bet you thought I’d already forgotten. Or just slacked. #14 | Take a Hot Yoga class There’s no big, profound reason for Hot Yoga appearing on the list, I had [...]

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The GRAND Tour | Part 2

If you haven’t read Part 1, start HERE. When we left off, Jeff and I (and Dave, Cathy, and Jerry) had just drifted off to sleep at Phantom Ranch in the bottom of Grand Canyon. | DAY 3 | The next morning we awoke to the sound of Bright Angel Creek, and were delighted to [...]

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