I write what refuses silence
· Travel Journal
Returning to Santa Fe in August 2025 was less a victory lap than a reckoning: difficult months behind me, familiar light ahead of me, and the first real sense that home could begin doing its work again.
Paired Poem
A New Dawn in Your Journey
· Travel Journal
The Barcelona return needed its own page because the final morning at the cathedral changed the tone: one quiet stop in the Gothic Quarter before the flight home closed the chapter.
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Whispers in the Silence
· Travel Journal
Barcelona in April 2025 was a fast bright opening to the cruise: favorite cousin, Laure, Donna and John, Connie and Dave, new friends Emily, Denise, and Rachel, and that unforgettable elevator story on night one.
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Journey of Belonging
· Travel Journal
The Los Cabos stay from December 17, 2024 through January 2, 2025 was an exhale at the edge of a difficult year: sister, Maine-circle friends, beach light, and a warm rested beginning to 2025.
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Reflections at Dusk
· Travel Journal
Maine in August 2024 was slower and softer than the rest of that year’s travel: Bangor flights, my sister, friends, lobster, porches, and the kind of coastal ease that reset my thinking.
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A World of Whimsy
· Travel Journal
The Peru return was its own entry because coming home from that landscape had weight: Cusco to Lima to Atlanta to Albuquerque, Book 2 finished, and the difficulty of fitting ordinary scale back around Andean memory.
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The Measure of Time
· Travel Journal
Peru became both pilgrimage and writing season: Rainbow Mountain, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, long days of attention, and the quiet fact of finishing Book 2 there.
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The Echoes of Silent Mountains
· Travel Journal
Peru began with transit, altitude, and humility: Atlanta to Lima to Cusco, thin air at 11,000 feet, and the immediate awareness that I had arrived somewhere older and larger than my plans.
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Echoes in the Hush
