One of my favorite places to “Be” is in my mother’s garden. It appears she was born with a green thumb and is always happiest working in her element.

If you fall into the population that is doing their part to slow the spread of COVID-19 by staying home, you might have some extra time on your hands. If you would like to learn something new why not calculate your carbon footprint?

I set my alarm at 4:00 a.m. to be at the dock by 6:00. By 7:30, the island of Cozumel was in our wake, and we were just 180 kilometers away from our destination in the heart of the Yucatan.

There are trips, and there are trips that fundamentally change something in you. I have been waiting my entire life to visit the motherland - Mexico, and waiting most of my adult life to begin traveling abroad (more on that later).

Sometime talk is cheap. Sometimes it takes you places. Just a few short weeks after relocating to my hometown, I sat in a small town diner and drew a map.