My first recollection of being used to subdue my spirit was at the age of three, waiting for the “monster” to come through my bedroom window. I would not go to sleep, so my mother used a powerful visual to get me to comply, an editorial cartoon of Atlas holding the earth. Fear was a …
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“Stop Children What’s that Sound?-Traveling with Forrest Gump
" Paranoia strikes deepInto your life it will creepIt starts when you're always afraid." Song by Stephen Stills Single released by Buffalo Springfield in 1966 This is the song on The Forrest Gump soundtrack that made me tear up. "There's battle lines being drawnNobody's right if everybody's wrong." 53 years later, and turmoil continues. I'm …
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70/7000 September 11, 2001
It was a week and a half after I returned from my 70/7000 trip and I will always remember how sunny that morning was. I walked into the office of my elementary school and saw my colleagues silently huddled around a TV. The images of the burning World Trade Towers were surreal but our feelings …
70 days, 7000 miles, Day 19
July 11, 2001 I'm in Montana, one of my original destinations for this trip. I'm going to do some serious fly fishing here. But the day started out bad because I couldn't find the place to get a National Parks Pass. I wasted a lot of time. Somehow things finally turned out. I kind of …
Nourishing Courage
I believe that all of us are born poets and artists and scientists and explorers. I believe that we come into this world brave and ready to tackle life. I came to this conclusion after 27 years of teaching elementary students. A lot of my job was imparting knowledge and honing skills but it …
The Autonomous Traveler 