My 7 Links: Seven Posts That Deserve To See The Light Of Day
I’ve had a lot of fun reading the 7 Links posts that folks have been posting. It’s always interesting to me to read back through old stories and watch how a person, or a blog, or a journey evolves....
View ArticleThe Year In Review: 2011 Photo Essay
It’s been a five country year for us, across North and Central America. We thought you might like to take a quick trip back through 2011 with us in pictures: January… February… March… April…...
View ArticleOur Travel ABCs
I came upon a post like this on a new blog I’m exploring Mama’s Got Wanderlust. Of course the name resonates with me, you ought to check it out. It’s a fun idea and I thought I’d add our version. For...
View ArticlePain As Meditation
**Prologue** I wrote this over a year ago. I wrote it for myself, primarily. (I do a lot of that.) I never intended to share it with anyone but the friend, herein. But then, there was another friend...
View ArticleMonkey Palooza!
We’ve been talking a lot about our monkey experiences this month. The kids have been laughing and retelling a lot of great experiences over our travels. We thought that some of the kids that follow us...
View ArticleAdventures in the Air: United flight 1429 from Guatemala City to Newark...
I’ve been on a lot of flights. I used to travel for my work, so have seen better than the average person’s share of the inside of an airplane. Several years ago when I was making the quick hop from New...
View ArticleSan Marcos La Laguna: Good morning, from our house to yours
It is morning and the house is quiet. Steam, rising from my teacup, uncurls and stretches white fingers between the streaks of sunshine reaching through my dusty window. The garden is still asleep,...
View ArticleThe Giant Kites of Sumpango: on the power of hearts to make things fly
“No where else in the world can you see this, ladies and gentlemen! Only here, in Sumpango, Sacatapequez, can you see kites like this! Only here, where we honor our ancestors and our Mayan heritage...
View ArticleImelda’s weavings: On making a difference for one family
From the moment I stepped off of the boat, I’ve been looking for her. On every walk through the village and each boat ride across the lake. I even crashed the high school graduation ceremony, on the...
View ArticleOn Full Moons & Mornings
The drums pounded late into the night. I sat on the porch in the deep darkness feeling the heat of the afternoon sun radiate back up beneath me, released from the terra cotta tiles, and I listened:...
View ArticleOn Life Hacking & Remembering How To Live
Life is slow here. The days start early and somehow they seem longer than days elsewhere, even though sidewalks are rolled up by about 11 p.m. There is time for yoga in the mornings and tea on the...
View ArticleOn Community, Magic & Love: What I learned at the drum circle
“You know what I like about you?” Tor mused, sideways at me as we watched the orange flames dance in the darkness. “You’re unusually observant. You’re always watching things. You’re aware of your...
View ArticleWhen Things Fall Apart: What Hannah Lucia taught me
Things always fall apart when The Man leaves. To be fair, it’s not only when he leaves. In actual fact, we’ve had a laundry list of logistical issues in the past month and a half. We expect some...
View ArticleOn Education: What Hanna Lucia wants you to know
My house is beautiful chaos right now. Hannah, Ezra and his new friend Ben, a young man he met at Tor’s place when he was building his drum, are sitting on the patio painting palm curls that they...
View ArticleGhosts of Christmas past
When I was a little girl, Christmas was pure magic. Snow covered log cabins, ice skating on winter afternoons, hot chocolate with marshmallows and peppermint sticks. Christmas mornings were cinnamon...
View ArticleKonojel Nutrition Center: In which I am proud of my kid
There are moments when I’m immensely proud of my children. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with who they are becoming. I like them. I think they’re interesting humans to share life with. Their...
View ArticleWhy we do this: On being taken advantage of
Ours is a busy household, always. It can’t really be otherwise, with four kids, everyone schooling, three of us working, traveling more than average and endeavoring to build community and memories...
View Article5 Reasons You SHOULD Ride a Chicken Bus
It is a subject of much discussion among my teenagers as to why more travelers do not ride chicken buses. We understand why most tourists don’t, they’ve been scared off of the idea by guidebooks and...
View ArticleMusings by Moonlight
There is solitude in moonlight. Where the sunlight powers the world and creates energy with it’s very presence, pushing humanity forward even as she pulls our planet at dizzying speed in her orbit,...
View ArticleThe Gaia Project: We Were Painted Naked
So, we were painted… naked. Sounds like it would be a long story, doesn’t it? Only it wasn’t. It just, kind of, happened. San Marcos is a weird place. Stuff just happens here that doesn’t in other...
View ArticleLeaving Guatemala: What I Learned Today
In other news… I hate goodbyes. Hate ‘em. You’d think, with all of the practice we’ve had, that they’d get easier. Nope. Not even a little. As we bumped up the switchbacks on the side of the mountain,...
View ArticleFamily Photos- 2015
So, our awesome friend Luke took some family photos for us last week, in our garden in Guatemala. We thought you might like to see:
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