Nearly a year after losing my mom to metastatic small cell lung cancer, I was still grappling with waves of grief. As the one-year anniversary approached, I felt an urgent need to escape—to embark on a journey that would take me far from my regular life and, hopefully, offer some […]
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I never thought I’d be facing the digital equivalent of a fatal bus crash, but there I was, last fall, staring at the wreckage of my beloved travel blog, chickybus. A blank webpage with nothing on it except the word ‘suspended’ and the name of the webhost. It began […]
Read MorePhoto credit: þä½ “The only way to learn is through encounters.” —Martin Buber With blurry vision and a semi-paralyzed face, I sit in front of my computer, struggling to write, pausing every few minutes to rest. I fantasize about being somewhere else, someone else (non-disabled)….and in a completely different moment. […]
Read MoreWritten on October 7, 2013 by CB Driver in Trippy Travel Photos As you can see in this photo, the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (more info below), located in Newark NJ, is both beautiful and trippy–especially when you look at it up close. The winner of this round […]
Read MoreI was on a day tour in Chiapas, Mexico, when I met this woman who was making tortillas. We’d visited the mysterious Chamula church and the nearby Mayan cemetery in the highlands, then stopped off at a local arts and crafts center to check out the weavings. While there, we […]
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