New Year’s Report

Remember when it was a few months ago and I learned that the retreat I go on EVERY New Years for the past LITERALLY SEVEN OR EIGHT New Years was cancelled this year? I probably told you this. What I didn’t tell you is that it threw me into a leetle bit of a tailspinContinueContinue reading “New Year’s Report”

Discerning Lake Michigan

They say that the waves on my beloved Lake Michigan reached a height of twenty feet last week–crests of far-flung fresh spray spouting into the grey sky. I love the Great Lakes: their wide expanses of blue touch me every time I travel to see them–I could look at them for hours. Often, on vacation,ContinueContinue reading “Discerning Lake Michigan”

You can take the girls away from the Camino…

…but you just can’t take the Camino away from the girls. A few weeks ago I wrote to my cousin and my Juli-YEAH, “Camping?” and they said, “YES.” so we tossed around dates and places and settled, quickly, on the one that worked for all of us. And then I made the reservation and tuckedContinueContinue reading “You can take the girls away from the Camino…”