Two weeks of being at home and the jet lag is finally wearing off. I do actually have the words TIME TRAVEL on my calendar for the first and second of March because I boarded a plane on the morning of the first, spent twelve hours in the hair, and…
Life doesn’t always go as planned. And, sometimes, it REALLY doesn’t go as planned and you’re left juggling three emergencies and Huns at the north gate. That happened to me in June 2023. My middle sister had just had a baby, my youngest sister wanted to see the baby and…
I always wanted to be a world traveler. I grew up on stories of travel, far away countries, and in a multilingual family of immigrants. It always sounded so fun and exotic. As a kid I never thought about how my grandparents felt leaving the only culture they knew, and…
Life is funny. As a child, Australia was a far-away fairyland that seemed as reachable as Narnia or Middle-Earth. AND NOW I’M HERE!!! Way, way back in 2006-ish I was on the online writing group called Critique Circle and met an Aussie author named Amy Laurens. She was finishing college,…