Memoirs

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing." B. Franklin, Poor Richards Almanack

These are the stories I've done done that are worth writing.

Travel Lesson Number One

The streets of Lima, Peru soon became familiar, like the smell of your mother’s cooking on a Sunday morning. The sweet aromas that awaken...

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A Stranger and A Solo Trip

There was a lot happening in my life during the months before I was to depart on my first solo trip. – Moving out of my rental house,...

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The Waiting Place

Writing is a gift. A power. I have neglected this by not publishing more actively on my own website. I have become wrapped up in the...

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Fear of Traveling

It’s been three years since we’ve taken a flight. Three years since the heightened anticipation leading to departure engulfs me. It’s a...

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The Story of a Cairn

It was 2014 and as we were hiking through the highlands of Scotland, I took notice of a stack of rocks on the trail. They were so...

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