Are you a New Year Resolution or goal setting person? As an alternative, I am allowing myself three best hopes for 2022: My first best hope for 2022 is to find my waist again. For me, this is a metaphor representing appearance, weight, health, and quite honestly, probably many more things too. What could get in the way? There is…
I am just back from a wonderful three weeks of backpacking around the country of Mexico, including one week with my daughter. Threaded amongst all my fantastic experiences, my biggest problem was that my footwear was not up to the job. We are talking about my sandals. I had made an assumption, that my lovely sandals (featured above, on the…
Tandem skydiving over the Namibian desert at Swakopmund. A first for each of us, let alone as a family of five. We each had our own hopes, aspirations and concerns about the jump. Why did we do it? Mainly – because we could – safely, easily, and in a great setting! The experience was awesome – stretching, challenging and a…
A story about how positive emotions can combine. Recently my husband and I visited Lisbon for the first time. On our second day we travelled along the north bank of the river Tagus to the town of Belem, a place of huge historical influence, inextricably linked with Portugal’s “Golden Age of Discovery”. It was over 500 years ago, starting from…