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The hills stretched out in ordered rows, each line set with a care that felt almost too precise to be…
Filling Boxes and Filling Rooms
I did not choose retirement the way Michael did. He walked out of a forty year career at the top…
Enneagram Types in Retirement: When a Type 1 and Type 4 Share a Cup of Coffee
About three weeks into retirement, I banned General George S. Patton from our morning coffee. Not from our home, nor…
Italy Trip April 2026
April 7 – 28, 2026 Part One: Rome The morning of our departure began with our usual coffee together, one…
Travel: Reframed and Learning a New Way in This Season
Learning a New Way to Travel We are recently back from three weeks in Italy. When the trip began, I…
Lessons We Have Learned the Hard Way in Italy
Travel is educational. Definitely culturally and historically. Occasionally its by walking barefoot into a raised floor edge at 2:17 a.m.…
Italy, Changing Roles, and Traveling in a New Season
Traveling in Italy We leave for Italy in a few days, and in an unexpected turn of events, I’ve become…
The Sweeter Things
This space is for the places and times that are part of our life. They are the Sweeter Things. Days…
Portable Order: How Travel Tests (and Refines) Our Rhythm
Travel has a way of revealing what is real. A rhythm that only exists at home is not yet a…