• The Ganges, Varanasi, India
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  • Southern Maine Community College, Culinary Arts
  • The Galapagos Islands
  • Timp Point, North Rim, Grand Canyon
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Latest Musings...

From ‘Merikkkah to Sabai Sabai: One Year Later…

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The Year That Was… (Context & Milestones) It’s been a year… and what a year it was. I left behind a 25-year teaching career in government education, retired with full benefits. Goal accomplished, just like I planned since I... Read More

Listening: Connection Before Correction

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When we speak, we are not asking to be advised, fixed, or given solutions. We are asking to be seen. To be understood. To be heard. And yet, people so often hear someone’s pain or confusion as a cry... Read More

Following the Voice, Learning to Let Go

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This morning I sit in a small Istanbul coffee shop along the Bosphorus. The city hums and pulses around me — cars, motorbikes, trams, people rushing off to work, ferries gliding across the water, tourists drifting toward the Old... Read More

The Dark Roads of Trust and Its Ghosts

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I travel down dark streets through Thailand at night. There are no police patrols, no one to call if something goes wrong. Vehicles speed closely past me that I can feel the wind shift across my skin. Am I... Read More