Roll with it, re-group, change of plans – travel demands flexibility
"Mount Agung, in Eastern Bali, spurted clouds of grey and white ash across the Indonesian island and sparked a dangerous flow of debris", according to the headline news. That's not good. After leaving Cambodia, we were hoping to spend a
Do we plan our legacy, or does it happen to us?
We bought a seven-day pass to the Angkor Archeological Park. Nobody was standing in that line up. We walked right up to the teller. It turns out that most people visit for one day. Some stay for a 3 day
Greater creativity promised, write 3 pages
I have looked at the book, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, many times in my local White Rock bookstore. I have picked it up, flipped it over and read the back summary. Then put it back on the shelf,
The curse of Taurus the bull
I don't live by the predictions of a daily horoscope. In truth, I've only looked at my zodiac sign description, maybe a dozen times in my whole life. But, every time I do, some of the words are burned into
When you can’t tell the season by looking out the window
I could have also called this 'chasing summer', which is another we feel about it. We are literally trying to avoid winter this year. Hopping from place to place. First to stay in the warmth, during the Fall season of
One day in Bangkok made us grateful
Bangkok, Thailand was part of my first tour in Asia, when I was just 24 years old. From what I can remember of that trip, the hotel we stayed in, was super posh. High columns, gold gilding everywhere, rooms that
Be bold! Join, start or share in a social movement
OK - its time to answer the question I hear most often asked of me. 'What do you do?' My answer is sometimes, 'I am retired'. To that, I get a round of laughs. Surely that cannot be true, I
What qualifies a creative genius?
I'm not an expert in architecture. I've visited a few churches in my life, but I'm not devoted to studying that type of building, or any others for that matter. So maybe I am missing a bunch of creative structures
Why do people stare when I knit in public?
“It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living.” -D.W. Winnicott, psychoanalyst, pediatrician and creativity expert Some people might think it is a bit strange to have packed knitting needles on