In which a destination person learns to appreciate the journey.

Before we left on our Kilimanjaro triumph, I wrote about how the journey is the destination. Truth be told, I believed that...

We made it. We made it! We made it.

On September 10 (my husband’s birthday), we realized our goal of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. At 19,341 feet, it’s Africa’s...

It’s been an incredible amount of hard work to train for our Kilimanjaro trip. And hard work demands a mantra.

Sometimes I find myself slogging through a strength workout, wondering if...

It’s an angry time. Is there anything more divisive than an election season, especially this one? I often feel like my beliefs are pitted against other peoples’ and social media simply...

Are you a journey person or a destination person? Do you enjoy the work it takes to get you to a goal, or is the end result the most important thing?

I’m a little of both. More...

Life is rarely linear and often has no interest in following whatever script we’ve written out for ourselves. I know for dead-certain that I didn’t plan to get cancer (or that...

Are you doing what you should? Or what you must?

The words might seem similar, but believe me, there’s an enormous difference between the two.

Should is what the...

Have you read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? It’s one of a few very funny books by Douglas Adams. I was thinking of a scene in it where the alien Zaphod Beeblebrox teaches the...

“I love your hair. Seriously. You have the best hair!”

My coffee date has just joined me at a window table in Starbucks. This is our second meeting, the first...

 You never know when the Universe will bitch-slap you with some truth.

I sat down for lunch recently, pulling out the latest Oprah magazine. “Mmmm,” I thought, “Elizabeth...