Category: travel

  • I brought home an idea from our summer visit to Stockholm where I learned that the Swedes make a conscious effort to create a cozy ambiance during their long dark winters. They bring light and warmth indoors, and perhaps a sense of slowing down, not being rushed, to the season. I’ve added strings of light…

  • It’s dark now at 6 a.m. Summer has flown by, rich in big moments for my family — love and death and tenderness. And all around us, as always, the great cacophony of the world. Autumn’s coming, chill mornings, heavier skies. Before letting summer go I want to savor a few moments, not the big…

  • Sometime last March, a few Eugene Oregon folks decided to reconnect with their fellow citizens by walking across the country. Thousands of miles, one step at a time, they figured it would be a way to bridge the us-and-them divide. They called their effort Liberty Walks. They made a web site. They invited support via…