Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

traveling is the great true love of my life

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.