I have just made a commitment to do something that terrifies me. At the end of this month, I am joining my eldest daughter and some family friends on the Camino de Santiago.  Some background for the uninitiated:  for over a thousand years, pilgrims have been making...

A sunny, yet chilly March morning dawns.  Today is the day I will take that single step and begin my “stroll,” as it were.  A friend of mine suggested that I call it that (as opposed to, say, the Bataan death march) in order to keep positive about the now 240+...

Chaperoning a school band trip to Disneyland Paris.  Seven-hours on a bus with rambunctious teens.  Oh joy.  To my credit, when the bus stops at the base at the N.A.T.O. Base (SHAPE) in Belgium, I beg off the long lunch line at the bowling alley/burger joint and go...