What Cancer Taught Us About Traveling Lighter

Posted May 9th, 2016

What we didn’t realize during our *wilderness years* – that season of time from Hubby’s job loss through cancer – was this: The paring down and simplifying of our lives was for a larger purpose, for lighter travel over mountain trails and barren places. As it turned out, the circumstances that forced us to pare down benefitted us in more than […]


7 Reasons For Settling In And Venturing Out

Posted April 21st, 2016

My niece recently posted this to my Facebook page: “She was an adventurer at heart; but oh how she loved drinking this tea from this mug in this chair. Oh how she loved home.” My niece knows me well. Walking into my sweet little guest house rental, after being out of town for a week, I […]