A walk through my new home and the art that adorns it

Tips for when you're feeling overwhelmend

2020 certainly was a year for reading. I usually read about 24 books per year. During 2020, I went through a total of 56. Though this could be attributed to the fact that we all spent much more time indoors

Prague Images of Prague have been passing through my memory the last few days as I finished up Franz Kafka's book, The Castle. As always when reading Kafka, the mind strains to understand, to reach the

I just finished a project that I'd been working on for a long time, and I'm so happy that it turned out as well as I had hoped. I really enjoyed working on it, and I'm enjoying the finished product too!

Well my fellow pilgrims, we draw to journey's end! Thank you for joining me along the way. I hope you've enjoyed following, and maybe have felt inspired to try the Camino yourself sometime. Just please

Recently some friends gave me a cape/cloak that they were getting rid of, because they know my tendency to upcycle and make new things out of old. When I saw it, I thought it would be a perfect Hobbit

It rained all day again on Day 10, but I made 35 km or so, which made me wonder if I could make it to Santiago the next day, a day ahead of schedule! Quite a hopeful surprise after my shaky start. :) One

It's been a while since I wrote about movies, but I've seen some good ones lately and wanted to share! I recently canceled my Netflix account. In the European countries where I've lived, the volume of

Day 9 was a rain day again. The rain fell steadily all day. I wore a plastic poncho, but keeping my arms, hands, and lower legs dry was basically impossible. Nothing to do but just keep on walking, keep

This weekend I decided to give my summer shoes a makeover. This is already the second time I've done this. Someone gave me the shoes second hand. They're made of a soft faux-leather material, which was

Well, so much for my fine words about not waiting a week between posts! All I can say is that life gets busy, and then free time gets used for rest or going out, and writing gets pushed to tomorrow, and

When you're on the Camino, you don't have the option to just take a break for a week as I have with writing about it! Every morning it's up and out of the hostel by 8:00 at the latest. The first couple

Yesterday I finished a project that I'd been working on for a long time. It's a set of "Spanish tiles" I created from a coloring book of Islamic designs, hand colored-in with markers, accented

Day 6 was significant because it was the day I crossed the border from Asturias into Galicia. Originally, when I realized I had underestimated my time, I had thought this line might be a good goal to shoot

Day 5 I really felt like I was getting into the heart of the wilderness. The air was cold and bracing and fresh and clean. It rained nearly the whole day, as it did almost every day of my hike. It got

Day 4 was by far the most exciting day of my trip. I literally could have died (but I guess that's true of any day of our lives). Anyway, if you're wondering why there are so few photos in this article,

"Yesterday I had a really bad day at work so I was like, I'm going to the beach and maybe that will make me feel better (even though taking the train to the beach after work only leaves like a half-hour

Hey, hey, hey! I'm back for day 3 of my trek on the Camino de Santiago--thanks for coming along with me! After leaving Nicolás and his magical albergue, I set off for the next major town on the trail: