Recently, I celebrated 9 years since my first blog was posted on this site May 31, 2017. That entry was about the beginning of taking Solo Journeys with that first trip to Sedona, Arizona after breast cancer treatment. Since that time, I've written 515 more and many have been about the 18 journeys that followed. … Continue reading Solo Journey: Brass Ring at Oak Bluffs
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Remembering Sedona: Journeys that Stay with Us
Recently my friend and her husband took a road trip out west. She shared lots of photos along the way and I especially enjoyed the ones of the red rock formations in Moab, Utah. I haven't been there but the rocks reminded me of Sedona, Arizona. I could appreciate the startling beauty that's so different … Continue reading Remembering Sedona: Journeys that Stay with Us
Time to Travel: Changing Priorities
It's that time of year when folks are nailing down plans for the summer. My daughter-in-law, Emily is scheduling summer camps and family vacation--often what the mother does; I remember that phase. I signed up for a few days of "Grammy camp" to fill in my grandsons' vacancies. Meanwhile, people have started asking me if … Continue reading Time to Travel: Changing Priorities
Solo Journey: The Seed of an Idea
This last week of February, the urge to take a solo journey hit me when I was on my morning walk. I'd been busy in January with my writing and then back-to-back weekends of ice then snow put me in a hibernating mode. But on that walk, with the air feeling like spring, the thought … Continue reading Solo Journey: The Seed of an Idea
Solo Journeys: Wide Open Spaces
When I rode my bike last weekend at Ft Caswell, I was transported back to my second Solo Journey. That year I turned fifty and gave myself a trip--alone, for my birthday present. I'd remembered how freeing that first unexpected serendipitous trip to Sedona had been when I was forty-six: no carpooling teenage sons, no … Continue reading Solo Journeys: Wide Open Spaces
Keeping Our Dreams Alive
Last Saturday, I attended a birthday lunch for my brother-in-law, Winslow who was celebrating his 75th. Reference was made to it being his "3/4th of a Century Birthday."; that really put it all in perspective. I'm about four years behind him and have had many conversations with my peers about life passing by so quickly. … Continue reading Keeping Our Dreams Alive
Connie Rosser Riddle 