Sicily

The restaurant on the side of the road during wartime a couple decades ago.

Gave me a compliment

What’s the kindest thing someone has ever done for you? A lot of my life has been spent living in emotional pain from loneliness. In high school an English teacher I wasn’t even in class with would stop me in the hall and tell me I was doing a good job and to keep my…

The Job?

If the salary was the same, what job would you be doing right now and why? I think the job id want to get back into if it paid the same is a peer to peer specialist at the VA hospital leading groups based in recovery and support especially for trauma survivors with cptsd and…

Simply Piano is a Gateway

Share a hobby you’ve picked up recently — what got you into it? I don’t sponsor Simply Piano, I only want to share my user experience. I have been playing for 77 days straight since I bought my first tiny electric piano and I am engaged and learning. I am bad at memorization so I…

Act IV Duty

One of my favorite things about my job as an RP on the FMF deployment to Camp Lemonier was the humanitarian work. We made such an impact, it was an awesome experience to be part of. My job was to coordinate visits to three orphanages and work with the orphanage leadership on construction projects, visiting…

The book series I can’t finish

What’s a book you never finished but still think about? I was so deeply involved with the story of Robert Jordan’s wheel of time series I got to book 10 and then life got in the way and every time I’ve tried to get back into the world I get waylaid by characters and histories….

Internal Geography

Thank you to everyone reading from more than fifty countries. This blog has always been about the inner world — the storms, the deserts, the caves, the oceans we carry inside us. Wherever you’re reading from, I invite you to walk these inner landscapes with me and share in the journey they reveal. If you’ve…