Montana & Memories
July 17, 2014 in North America, United States
I woke to the west wind’s whispering. A ghostly sound: dry, with the faint crackle of sandstone beneath bare feet. Soft, the hushed caress shared by nodding seed heads in the […]
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Camino de Santiago: Graffiti on The Way
July 14, 2014 in Europe, Spain, Travelogue
I found the graffiti on the Camino fascinating. The path is painted, from end to end, with yellow arrows and with messages from other pilgrims. Every day I took at […]
Camino de Santiago: On Galicia’s enchanted forests
The trees of the Galician forests have eyes. Big ones that are open wide and always watching as pilgrims pass through the bowered paths tripping lightly across the wide stone […]
Camino de Santiago: Day 31: In which my feet do not hurt
June 30, 2014 in Europe, Spain
I hate putting on my boots. The process is preceded by a ten minute ritual of popping blisters, applying antiseptic, cutting and folding gauze, bandaging raw spots with tape and […]
Camino de Santiago: Gregorian Chant
June 28, 2014 in Europe, Spain
The interior of the cathedral is crumbling. I can’t say that I’d even call it a cathedral, more of a chapel built to the scale of the small town that […]
Camino de Santiago: The rocks speak
June 26, 2014 in Europe, Spain
Astorga to Rabanal is a lovely walk. Today was marked by the messages, inscribed on stones, and left along the path. Before long, I found myself hunting for them, like […]
Building Family Culture: On the power of habits
June 26, 2014 in Education
Years ago, in a particularly frustrating phase of parenthood when it seemed like I would never get my head above water, a wise mentor mama encouraged me with words that […]
Leon: On parties and pensive walking
June 24, 2014 in Europe, Spain, Travelogue
Leon put on her party dress for our birthday. Parades of festively dressed bands playing hard brass as they marched in the streets. Classic Romani men playing reed pipes while […]
Camino de Santiago: On the meseta and what I am learning
June 20, 2014 in Europe, Spain
The meseta is long and hot. After two weeks toiling through mountains and rolling hills, over rocky terrain and ankle deep slippery leaves, one would think it a relief to […]
Building Family Culture: The Arts
June 19, 2014 in Education
It is a great sadness to me that the Arts are being pulled from public schools. With budget crunches, faced with the choice of fire a math teacher or let […]
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