I’ve stayed in more hotel rooms these past six months than in the past ten years of my life combined. As one who is often all too willing to subscribe to marketing ploys, I generally keep my Hilton Honors card pretty close (points speak, you know). But these travels have brought me to a variety […]
‘Not another church!’ You might expect these words from a teenager on holiday in Europe, but not from me. Not from the mom whose 9-to-5 (make that 24/7) revolves around the Church – the Body of Christ. Nevertheless, after walking dutifully through gothic and ornate church building after church building, these words may have been […]
Our first day in Italy. What better way to spend it than exploring the island of Capri?! Unfortunately, our adventure began in a flurry of missed buses and racing hearts and feet as we showed our true tourist-colors in a strange land (with strange street names, bus stops and interpretations of time). Never mind, though, […]
The part of the tour that my son dreaded the most had finally arrived. As the bus turned toward Mondsee from Salzburg, our guide switched on the soundtrack and challenged the intergenerational bus load of fans (and their reluctant companions) to sing along. I couldn’t help myself as, grinning from ear to ear, I joined […]
We arrived in Germany on a Monday, and by Wednesday I was getting nervous… Thursday was family-arrival-day. My daughter and I made the long hop together, arriving to meet my parents who had done their pilgrimage the week before. When my husband and son hit the tarmac running, we might have been singing ‘The Gang’s […]
Some people barrel through life in a constant state of ablaze-for-what-comes-next. Some people live very well in the moment, but when the moment is gone, so goes its power. No lesson learned. No lingering sense of the holy in what just happened. And some people put down roots – deep and extensive roots – in […]