It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach […]
Karen Carter
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“Go on and write me up for 125, Post my face, wanted dead or alive. Take my license, all that jive. I can’t drive 55” – Sammy Hagar This past March, we finally said goodbye to our trusty 2007 Toyota Yaris. The no-frills little car, which still had hand-crank roll-down […]
At Christmas, all roads lead home. – Marjorie Holmes I didn’t fully appreciate the 12 Days of Christmas until I moved to Spain. What I knew about it mainly came from the song that detailed the expanding number of increasingly exotic gifts. But except for the more diligent Catholic relatives, […]
So why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – […]
It only becomes art if it touches other people – Andreas Eschbach (Blog post by Tom Carter) Cycling is an inherently beautiful sport in many different ways. Its battles are waged not in stadiums or arenas but in some of the most scenic places on earth. Since the ultimate challenge […]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost Time permitting, my husband and I like to turn on the “no tolls” function in Google Maps on road trips. We prefer the less […]
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen It’s early September. The days are still sunny and hot and the sea and the pools still warm, but now, when I awake around 7:00am, it’s dark outside. The solar lanterns we’ve hung around our casita are still glowing brightly. […]
“Once you begin watching spiders, you haven’t time for much else.” — E.B. White Now that it’s hot, each morning I get out of bed when the sun first peeks over the horizon to water our garden plants. I’m naturally a morning person so I find this task pleasant: walking […]
“I don’t want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde On some mornings, if it isn’t too cold, I head to the port for an open water swim. No matter the day, there is almost always a group of elderly Spanish women already in […]
[Humans] need difficulties. They are necessary for health. — Carl Jung On a Tuesday in early December my husband and I decided to hike up Calpe. Calpe — or Calp, as it is spelled in Valenciano, is an enormous limestone rock that looms over the town of the same name. […]