A Special Place
My favorite view of Lake Tahoe from my favorite local trail, with no evidence of another human in sight The Lake Tahoe area recently survived a very serious threat from…
My Life in Haiku
I have always loved the Japanese poetry form of Haiku. What I write doesn’t always strictly conform to the “rules” other than it always follows the pattern of 3 lines…
Travels in Viet Nam
Old City Gate, Ha Noi Of all the places I have been so far in the world, Viet Nam was the most different and interesting. This is the only place…
The Dove Test
Kevin and me on Tao Min, July 2004 A few months after my husband Kevin and I started dating, he started quizzing me about how I felt about a few…
Life is Choices
Your life is a series of choices. Every moment, every day, you are making choices – what to wear, what to eat, what route to take to work, etc. But…
Travel Towards being an Expat
Bahamas, 1989. Photo credit Kevin Krause. In response to my first blog entry Question Everything, several people asked me to write about my travels and/or being an expat. I believe…
Question Everything
When I was four years old, I witnessed something very disturbing. My mother had brought me and my two younger siblings to the local mall. There was a line and…