Musings about midlife, parenting, travel, and the tension of holding it all together.
Learning to Love Home while Craving Elsewhere: Island Dreams of St. Lucia
We’re heading to St. Lucia in March. It’s geared as a couple’s romantic getaway and the honeymoon crowd is well-catered to, but we’ll be taking our seven-year-old. Challenge accepted.
Between Who I Was and Who I’m Becoming
A year ago, the international development sector collapsed. There were casualties, lives lost, and many more quietly upended. On the scale of human tragedy, my damage was minor.
St. Lucia We Did Everything on the List (Except the Spa)
This trip was all about splitting the difference: between adventure and comfort, between rest and action, between beach and nature, between expensive and affordable.
Between Restlessness and Rest
When I was growing up, my mom tried on identities like new wardrobes. There was “muffin mom” who wore twinsets and pearls and baked goods from a newly purchased “Muffins and More” cookbook. She only lasted a few weeks, but we all have fond memories of this one.
Between Home and Away 