Over the last few years, I have had a slow-growing epiphany of sorts.  As I observe folks around me and watch relationships of all varieties either flourish or struggle, there is one key word that keeps rearing its occasionally ugly head. Hence the title… Rather than point it out in other folks’ relationships (though it […]

I can’t hear myself think. Sometimes, there are just so many exuberant voices in the room that my introverted side feels like I’m in a wicked rainstorm of noise with wind and buckets of relentless, bullet-sized raindrops.  I want to go find my happy, quiet place and escape. I refuse to eat at Brann’s ever […]

Today we drove. A lot. We explored some regions inland, and in doing so fulfilled two of my lifelong dreams. We drove to Kuranda which is a neat little hippie kind of town high up past a million switchbacks (which thanks to our driver, Mario Andretti, made one of our passengers lose his lunch) nestled […]