When I was just settling into pandemic quarantine I thought it would be a great time to follow the little voice in my head…be a writer and see what happens. Learn How to Blog I had been traveling about once a month for the year and a half leading up to quarantine. I had…

Second Week of January — Day 1 The edible heart above was a creation I tried based on an online image. The original idea was to place mozzarella balls on the toothpick at either end of the heart and serve it as a Valentine’s Day appetizer. I just wondered if it really worked. I cut the cherry…

Write better, interview better, make more meaningful connections with awe-inspiring stories — Martin Luther King, Jr. is mentioned in the opening definition of awe in The Science of Awe, a whitepaper prepared for the John Templeton Foundation by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. A majestic waterfall, the Taj Mahal, towering redwoods, the Grand Canyon, a tornado, Beethoven’s Symphony Number…

One year as a writer — Reflection and my best lessons — The body of a woman was found stabbed to death in the park. This park is the setting of nearly two hundred of my photo essays. …

Awe practice — The photo above reminds me of a magical moment drifting through Lake Huron on a not-so-common, no-sweatshirt-needed, summer evening. The setting sun spilled sparkling gemstones across the water. They seemed to be danced toward me. Each golden gem glimmered and bounced with its own unique cadence over each ripple —…

You can’t have fun without it — You don't stop having fun when you get old, you get old when you stop having fun. — Ritu Ghatourey Fun is supposed to be, well…fun. It shouldn’t be a rough ride, although those off-road adventures can actually be fun. Have you ever struggled to enjoy what used to be…

Planned Awe — The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark, and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. — Osho The Challenge This is a fresh month, a fresh year. Let's add awe and an exclamation mark to our adventures in 2022! Plan more moments of awe. …

First Week of January — Day 1 The cover photo is my gingerbread house for the family zoom contest. This year we got a pretty late start and our time was very limited. This wasn’t my best work but my husband submitted a photo of mine as his own, causing a little confusion for the judge. We…

Explore the best of everything awe-inspiring — A majestic waterfall, the Taj Mahal, towering redwoods, the Grand Canyon, a tornado, Beethoven’s Symphony Number 9, Monet’s Water Lilies, a fractal, a spiritual experience, a performance by Prince, a child being born, a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., …