On the Road: Temple Hopping
Driving through Kumbakonam on our way from Pondicherry to Thanjavoor, intricate temples dotted the skyline.
Category Archives: India
Pondicherry: Morning Meditation
At 6 am, we were almost the only ones on the beach… By 8, it was full working hours. Nevertheless, we found just as much (if not more) serenity at […]
Today’s Challenge: Beatrix, Bernadette and the Quest for Magic Goat Milk
Great challenge to write our day as a children’s book from Lauren Furgason… Clearly, Blair and I had fun with this on our long drive through the Tamil Nadu countryside […]
Mahabalipuram: Morning Meditation
Stunning Mahabalipuram
Today’s Challenge(s): Adopting A Wild Animal Can Be Simple
I’m writing this post from a commune in Pondicherry. As I reflect on today’s challenge(s) and how they’ve come to fruition in unexpected and interconnected ways in the past 12 […]
Today’s Challenge: Family Glue Keeps Love True
After hours of travel, we arrived in the beachy town of Mamalapuram, where cows vye with motorbikes and trucks for road space, and colorful boats are beached on the sand […]
Today’s Challenge: Danger Is A Verb, Not An Activity
This morning’s challenge seemed fit for a trip mid-point or a zen location, circumstances where I imagine I would have found my sabbatical groove, not for my first 48 hours […]
Today’s Challenge: From Multi-Tasking to Multi-Sensory
This morning, Blair and I pulled our first challenge: “no multitasking today.” (Thank you, Anne!) Fortuitously, my computer would not turn on and I was not set up on my […]
A Pre-Challenge That Tests the Fear of Rejection
A friend of mine gave me an audacious pre-challenge last week: write to the ambassadors in the countries I will be visiting and ask for time to meet with them, […]
The Flip Files: Flip Any Day Into An Adventure 