Over the past 2 1/2 years, travel has become a much bigger part of my life than I imagined. My youngest child stopped coming home during college breaks, including the summer, due to a job and my middle child moved to the east coast for law school. So I started traveling to the east coast multiple times every year plus, without my youngest coming home, my husband and I started traveling more on our own. And even more recently, my mother moved into a new house in a retirement c

There's no way around this - 2025 was a total shit-show for a lot of people and certainly for me. I spent a lot of the year floundering in disbelief and despair at what was going on in the world, and struggling even more to help my family with new beginnings and endings as they also tried to navigate the world. As the year comes to an end and a new one begins, I know that I can't save the world or save anyone else really, but I can work on making myself stronger so that I can