The Fearless Girl statue is a bronze representation of me. Well, not really, but rather it’s a representation of how I want to feel every day but often fall short. When I visited New York City in September 2018, the girl statue was facing down a bull on Wall Street. I just love her! I…
Most art collections are housed in halls and museums that inspire awe and reverence. One unique art collection is housed in a building that from the outside is an elegant place built of concrete and manicured gardens with quoi ponds and a lush landscape. But from the inside the museum is meant to resemble a…
Is revision destruction or creation? A hike in upstate New York forced this question on me. In August 2017, my husband and I traveled to the Fingers Lakes area to celebrate my birthday. My husband is less of an adventurist and more of plain ol’ good sport, who likes his wife to be happy and…
“Everyone should have a friend that they shouldn’t sit next to at a serious function,” said some meme-maker on Facebook. For my mother, that friend was my grandmother. Their bouts of laughter in awkward places were the stuff of legends. Churches, funerals, confessionals. It didn’t matter. When the spirit or magic struck, they just let…
When my husband and I travel, I like to plan and he likes to just go—no map in hand, no tour guide, no reviews or ratings needed. Opposites to the bitter end, we are. But we’ve figured out a way to compromise. In December of 2019, we visited Kauai with his parents to celebrate their…
Oh, no! Say it ain’t so! At the Robert Frost Interpretative Trail, Ripton, VT, near the Green Mountain National Forrest, the road not taken is, in fact, the road everyone takes—at least the visiting hiker, that is. That famous poem is emblazoned on a sheet of tin near the top of a wooden post, while…
