Happy Winter Solstice from Newgrange, IrelandAt sunrise this morning in damp, dark velvety green Ireland an amazing ritual took place at a 5,000 year old neolith known as Newgrange. The ancient site is older than the Pyramids of Egypt and is located in one of the most sacred areas of the Emerald Isle, near where ancient kings were crowned. Every year on a series of … [Read more...] about Reflections of Winter Solstice in the Stone Age
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Ukraine Week
All this talk about Kyiv (Kiev) these days reminds me of my own experience in Ukraine last July, 2019. I wasn’t sitting in a restaurant next to the American diplomats discussing official relations and military aid, but Kyiv is bustling with a feeling that you’re in the middle of a spy novel, waiting for Jason Bourne to come running out of a back alley to jump … [Read more...] about Ukraine Week
I want to come clean
Greetings from hot and steamy Bangkok. I'm in SE Asia for about ten days exploring with my great friends Elliott and Brian. We flew on a new, 16 hour nonstop flight Singapore Airlines started between Seattle and Singapore. Amazing that with a little bit of entertainment (or the entire second season of Killing Eve) and some liquid merriment along the way, the … [Read more...] about I want to come clean
Making meaningful connections through travel
My love of GOAs a two year old, I was inclined to GO. I hopped in my mom's VW Bug and launched it into neutral to roll it down our driveway. Then later when I could form simple sentences I always perked up when my mom would include the word "go" in any conversation. I'd yell, "I wanna go too!" While our family didn't travel much on far away trips when I was young, we did … [Read more...] about Making meaningful connections through travel
