Time travel, tequila, and wide open spaces. My journey into Big Bend....
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The Bestest: My Favorite Travel Bloggers
One of the best things about moving into the travel blogging world is meeting so many wonderful fellow travelers. I recently spent time in Huntsville, Alabama at the TBEX conference: a place where travel...
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The Year of Last Holidays
If you were dying, but still felt healthy now, what would you do with the time you had left?
This question is the premise for two films entitled Last Holiday. In 2016, I lived the...
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The Lady in the Hermès Scarf
Elena tugged at a corner, and the heavy silk twill slipped from beneath the stack of scarves in the drawer to fall open in her hands. In the field of cerulean blue, the silver bark of the tree shone....
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The Lightness of Being
To fly over the ocean on a winged ship . . . It is an old feeling. A deep feeling. In it we are connected, even to the ancient Phoenicians daring to explore the...
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When Cancer Returns
The doctor’s eyes shifted slightly when he looked at me during the meeting following my scan. I knew. And I knew immediately. In the scan following my initial surgery, there were tiny, tiny spots in my...
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Chemo with Walter White
Tickle that cheek, and take your throne; pump your veins with gushing gold. — Glass Animals On September 15, 2014, I took my first round of chemo for colon cancer. My treatment was FOLFOX6,...
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