Category: Adventure

  • blink in eternity

    “In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” – Robert Green Ingersoll Taken on a plane between Chicago and Tucson feeling this world is a blink in eternity – weighty and wee.

  • road well traveled

    “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu A photograph I snapped on a southwest road trip.  Thirty feet of RV, fireside culinary delights and the company of three of the most amazing women I know.  We were there for the journey.

  • beauty and the beet

    It is no coincidence that beet greens resemble rich and healthy veins.  Among their many benefits beets build efficiency in your circulatory system and are good for your heart. My father recently experienced open heart surgery and I was drawn to cook them one night for him after surgery. As we were cleaning the leaves…

  • so many ways to dive

    There is nothing like skydiving. The view as you hang part of the way out of the door of the plane. The initial free fall where your stomach does a little leap.  And the peacefulness once the parachute is pulled and you are floating back down to earth. Add it to your bucket list and…

  • white dove of the desert

    This weekend I went with friends to the “white dove of the desert,” a national historic landmark here in Arizona called San Xavier Mission. Unbelievably, this Catholic mission was founded in 1692 (the same year of the famous Salem witch trials). The church is filled with marvelous original statues and mural paintings. Interestingly, the mission…