Oops. We Missed Our Plane.

Real life doesn’t stop just because you’re living your dream. The key is to stay in joy, and keep putting your desires out into the Universe. The more we stay released, the more quickly and easily things fall back into place. And at every step, we affirm, this or...
Van Gogh Museum

Van Gogh Museum

One of our favorite things about Amsterdam: the Van Gogh museum. In addition to the several hundred paintings, the museum really introduces the brilliant, serious artist and man. As his psychosis began to overtake his life, he struggled to produce more and more art,...

Our Second Week in Paris

We’ve finally figured out a traveling schedule that works for us: day 1, easy sightseeing for 3 or 4 hours; day 2, intense all-day sightseeing with lots of physical activity; day 3, collapse into a heap of inert protoplasm. Repeat. Today was a Day 3. We slept until 3...
In Search of Family History

In Search of Family History

Like many Canadian families, my mother’s family has its roots in Scotland, via England. Although I don’t know where my antecedents lived beyond my grandparents, I had a couple of places I very much wanted to see. Sitting at the right-hand wheel of our rental car...