Dear 2013, “What happened to your sex life?†These were the first words out of Starr’s mouth when she saw me on New Year’s Eve. Starr is the Curandera who took me in for five weeks after we serendipitously met as I was passing through Hot Springs, Arkansas on my five month road trip. My […]
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Personal reinvention is at times exhilarating and at times exhausting. Lately I’ve really felt tested. I almost feel the Universe looking down on me, questioning, whether in the face of adversity, I’ll remain positive, in the flow, and committed to living with the cowgirl spirit, or whether I’ll crack, give up and go back to […]
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In the wake of this week’s senseless tragedy of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting that left 26 dead in Newtown, Connecticut, I’m compelled to write about a tiny movement that has started with my friend Beth Howard. Beth is the author of Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie. She lives […]
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One of the many gifts the road has sent my way is a friendship with an inspiring woman named Carlyn Shaw. We were introduced through an equally inspiring woman, Shanti, whom I met on my road trip in Boise, Idaho. Although Carlyn and I have yet to meet in person, through social media, e-mails and […]
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“A stranger gave me his car,†said my houseguest Wendee Nicole as she took a sip of her coffee. My eyes bulged out as I processed what she had just said. We were sitting at my kitchen table in our pajamas talking about when during times in life we feel our daily existence involves an […]
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Driving back from the airport on Wednesday afternoon with hunger pains in my tummy, I decided to swing by HEB to stock my fridge with a few essentials. Now that I live in Texas, tostadas have become one of those essentials.  I found myself contemplating the shelves packed with different flavors: yellow corn, jalapeño, chili […]
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I’ve spent the past 1.5 years stepping away from the sidelines and learning to play the game of life. For the most part it has been exhilarating. However it hasn’t been easy. I’ve suffered my share of fumbled balls and interceptions at times when it seemed like I was finally headed for a touchdown. That’s […]
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Meet Leland Duff. He is 85 years old and he’s standing in front of the smoldering remains of his house. Buying a watermelon from him was the most important money I’ve spent all year. I just returned from a road trip. I was gone just under 2 weeks and I put over 1,200 miles on […]
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Sometimes an experience touches you deeply, where you know you are witnessing something profound and important, but you don’t know exactly what it is. That is what happened to me today. Yoda and I were heading back to Princess Leia the Prius, having just spent the last hour walking around Lady Bird Lake. I was […]
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Sometimes there is a single event that transforms one’s perception of a relationship forever. Sometimes that event is so damaging that it triggers the death of a relationship. Other times it is so profound that it gives birth to a new relationship. The most rewarding time is when that single event is so magical that […]
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