When I first walked the Camino back in 2013, I likened the 800-kilometer journey to a “mini life”. There was something magical about it. It was like a microcosm. I …
So, here we go…Ultreïa! It’s a Latin word meaning “beyond” or to keep going; to head onward and reach “beyond”. It’s a pilgrim salute like “Buen Camino”…
“Yes and trust!” David called out to me. He had stopped and turned on the cobblestone street ten paces from where I stood at the hostel door to remind me…
For two and a half years I lived with one foot at home and the other ready to take one gigantic leap back into Spain. It was such a struggle …
“If only these walls could speak,” I whispered. There is such history here, even my own stories that I hold close to my heart. These walls know what happened…
Imagine, you’re sitting in a restaurant and a waiter places five delicious breakfast dishes in front of you, including one gigantic bowl that would convince any meat-lover that…
There is a short story, but great meaning behind this orchid. After walking my first Camino three years ago, I visited a doctor at a walk-in clinic. I was losing …
“Seventeen acres in Kelowna, with a lake view, just sold for two million dollars,” Ryan said while we hiked up a dirt path near the top of Mt. Doug last …
Ten Q-cards, each bearing a single word written in permanent black ink, are affixed to the wall above my bedroom door. I strategically stuck them there so I would see …
A Facebook friend of mine wrote an article titled 3 Reasons Why Checking Email First Thing is the Wrong Thing. It is about how important it is not to check …
“Here’s a prescription for Ativan,” the doctor said as he handed me a slip of paper. Fear wouldn’t let me sleep the previous night. It had me curled up on …
I blurted it out as a desperate joke after I got robbed on a night bus between the lush jungle town of Puerto Maldonado and the dusty, wasteland of Juliaca …
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