Wendy – Hey, Boomer On September 10, 2001, I lost my job. I had been working as a recruiter and leadership development trainer at a telecom startup in Northern Virginia. The founder and I disagreed on how he was handling interviews and messaging with new hires. By the end of the day, he told me […]

Great Horned Owl Medicine: Trusting Your Inner Knowing We’re well-trained to give our power away to external authorities ~ other people, social media, belief systems ~ as if they’re all-knowing sources of indisputable truths. Great Horned Owl shows us the way to listen to and follow our inner authority. Great Horned Owls soar through the […]

Note: I’m finally posting journal entries that I couldn’t post because of limited wifi while I was in French Polynesia. I’m home at the moment. This is the only port where we stayed overnight. It’s totally fine with me. Even though it is the most visited island in French Polynesia, apart from Tahiti, it doesn’t […]

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I woke at 5AM for sunrise and to watch as the ship neared Bora Bora, circled around the reef to the only entry into the lagoon. The entry to the lagoon was constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers during WWII. They also brought electricity, built an airport, roads and other infrastructure. The Bora […]

The sky had just brightened when I opened the curtain and had my first glimpse of Nuku Hiva. It is the largest island in the Marquesas Island group, which is not to say it is a huge island. I stood on the terrace entranced by the scene before me—high, foliage covered peaks meeting turquoise sea. […]

We spent the day cruising to our next destination island. Fortunately the sea was calm and it was smooth sailing. Apart from eating, which I did a lot of–the food on the ship is delicious–it was a very full day. In the morning, I listened to a talk about the formation of these islands and […]

The weather has improved immensely. We now have that postcard perfect view of turquoise water and blue skies. It’s always a thrill to arrive to a new destination, especially when it’s one you’d never even heard of. That describes Fakarava. It is a protected biosphere atoll. Very long and narrow. There are a total of […]

I’m on board the Oceania ship, the Nautica, sailing through French Polynesia. The operative word today is THROUGH. The ship departed from Tahiti last night and arrived early this morning near Moorea. Last night I watched a video about Moorea, and it looked gorgeous; towering peaks set against turquoise water. The botanical garden filled with […]

I was getting to know a river whose path wandered through the willows and cottonwoods near our house. We’d found a place to land, in the wake of my father’s death, thirteen miles down a bumpy dirt road. According to contemporary maps, we were living along the San Juan River. Yet this river had many […]