• Living,  Traveling

    Shaking Off the Shroud of Fear

    This last year and a half has been very interesting, to say the least. Though, to be honest, if you look at history, what we’ve experienced the past 18 months is not really all that unique and not anywhere close to the worst pandemics we’ve had to deal with. Perhaps the difference is that we have white-washed death and dying to such an extent in our culture that many people have actually forgotten that one day they will be dead and buried — 6 feet under — and there is absolutely nothing we can do to change that reality! Perhaps we’ve all become great, big control freaks and finding ourselves…

  • Living

    Lots of Changes Happening

    This week, we drop two of our kids off at school and will return to the final days of summer — with two less children in our home! So many emotions happening right now! I am so happy that my kids are going to great places, but I also really just wish we could always live together at home as a family. Forever and ever. Amen! But, I know that is not how it was meant to be. Our kids were meant to go off and do things with their lives — things that could bring them to far off places, without us! I’m just so grateful for John and…

  • Traveling

    It’s Been a While and Where I’ve been

    Well, hello there! It’s been a while! Truth be told, it’s been one of those summers where I was just keeping my head above water. We had graduation parties and home improvements and we were getting ready for an epic family pilgrimage adventure, following the footsteps of St. Paul in Greece. I have to admit, I lost a lot of sleep over this trip. I can’t explain it but to say that the world has gone a bit crazy and to leave the shire that is our home and step into the craziness of bureaucracies and rising covid numbers in far off lands — in the middle of this never-ending…