Category Archives: Personal

About to leave paradise… St Regis Bali Resort | Travel

The internet is pretty slow, so we couldn’t make as frequent of blog updates as I would have liked. We’re leaving Bali in a few hours and heading back to Jakarta and will be back in the States in the next few days. Meanwhile, here is the beach where Eat Pray Love was filmed: “Have…

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Thanks for… | Thursday Thoughts

We’re headed off to the Dominican Republic and then when we get back we leave for Indonesia the day after!  We’ll be living out of a suitcase.  With all the traveling this month, I’m going to be missing Thanksgiving this year.  I figured I can still participate and get an early start by counting my…

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LA Food Adventure | Food & Travel

The last time I was in LA, it was a weekend of binge eating.  We ate every minute, every hour of the day… and when we weren’t eating, we were driving to or from a food joint.  Not only did I come back with extra weight, I felt sick and really REALLY missed the feeling…

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Radical Hospitality | Thursday Thoughts

Two years ago when I was in Egypt with 9 others.  A family who opened up their home to host us.  This was not the kind of hospitality where we stayed in their guest bedrooms and they cooked us a meal or two, but they stayed at their neighbors and slept on the floor so…

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We’re all Strangers | Thursday Thoughts

We live in a strange time and place where we are all strangers even in our own neighborhood.  This place is called suburbia.  Where we most treasure our privacy.  Where ‘neighbor’ simply means we live in close proximity to one another but we may never go next door to borrow a cup of sugar. Last…

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