Writing

Always a sweet, nostalgic weekend when Father’s Day rolls around. This year feeling a little silly so I wrote a limerick for my full-Irish father coupled with some new artwork. My pops, he was…

Late last summer I decided to do some creative playing and paint for fun. Not that I don’t consider all of my art endeavors ‘fun’, but this one was particularly so. No planning, no…

A couple of weeks ago I went on a little fieldtrip and gathered up a dose of inspiration. The destination was a short jaunt north to Michigan, starting on the campus of Michigan State…

We spent just over two weeks in the beautiful country of Thailand and are more open and humble as a result. I’ve blogged many of our experiences in the travel section of this website,…

All three of us agree that our day of biking through the coconut groves was THE start-to-finish best day of the trip. I know that for me, it was a day where I felt in…

When I saw that Ayutthaya was in my 100 Journeys for the Spirit book, I knew we had to incorporate it into our Thailand trip if possible. The Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya used to be…

We enjoy learning to cook new foods, particularly dishes we love eating. Alex gifted us with a Silom Thai Cooking School class at Christmas presenting us with menus from which to choose what we wanted…

Still on a high from the elephants in Chiang Mai, we hopped on our next one-way, Air Asia flight to Bangkok. Bangkok is a much larger city than Chiang Mai so navigating from the airport…

Inspired by our time at Thailand’s Elephant Nature Park, I gave my brain a workout and created a poem in the palindrome style. Palindromes read the same forward as backward – a bit tricky, but…

Warning: This blog post contains 55 photos of elephants. Just coming clean now so you know what you’re getting into. Two of the most meaningful days of our Thailand adventure were spent at the Elephant…