We all know the famous acronym for D.I.N.K, but have you ever heard of its red-neck hillbilly cousin the D.I.T.K. - Dual Income Two Kids? 6 years ago I went back to work. You can find many moody posts over-explaining and under-editing my situation here . With the stability of a second income came the instability of time off. Life is a trade-off, my friend. Gone were the days of month long stays abroad and "meeting Scott in Tel Aviv, just because". Now I had to squeeze a month

Well, well, well... if it isn't this little blog I've neglected for the last 6 years. I never intended to be gone this long. Although, I was never actually gone. I was here. I just didn't know what to say. There was nothing to say. What can you say when your art and livelihood was your life and people on The Internet decided that anyone's decisions were fair game for criticism? Nothing. It is hard to be creative when your world turned upside down and sharing honestly meant ha

I went to work to put some space between myself and "what happened" 3 years ago. It's funny because I never saw myself working in any...

Sweat trickled down my back and a flies landed on me. I tried to wriggle in such a way as to get them to leave. Swatting them wasn't an...

I really wanted things to stay the same. The good parts, at least. The part where I impulsively bought tickets to Athens at midnight and...

"Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -Mary Oliver It is no secret that my life has changed...

I was at work the other day when a fellow colleague came up to me and said "Hey, Miss Cluster Fuss Travel, I need some travel advice!" ...

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” - Mr. Rogers One year ago today we received The News. The News that...

Unless if you are Jeff Bezos or Gavin Newsom, odds are good you are coming into 2021 a bit shaken. Nervous. Sad. Hoping for the best, but...

Job loss has got to be one of the least sexy topics out there. We all know it is there, of course. Every day we hear the news tell us...

Well, hello YOU! I'm assuming you are here because you listened to our podcast and are wanting some of the details about what we talked...

Five years ago we sold our home and signed a lease that promised us a ticket out of Arizona. Five years later Scott and I find ourselves...

From there I went ahead and indulged my illogical hyper-organizing self to plenty of zip lock bags and tricking out my travel medicine bag.

We left our home as swiftly and quietly as we could one rare sunny afternoon in March. The Israeli and Canadian stamp ink was still...

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The photos and stories communicate an easy joie de vivre that was not entirely accurate. "We took our baby to Paris for his 2nd birthday."

A fern in a latte and a felt hat perched by a waterfall. Fluffy bathrobes bathed in golden sunlight by turquoise waters. These images...

One year ago today I brought my real world into a virtual one. I had been blogging for ten years, taking photos for twenty, traveling for...

I stumbled upon a Virgin Atlantic flight during a late night quest for reasonably priced tickets to Europe. For years it had been the...