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A Road Without Obstacles is not Worth Traveling

Yesterday I was handed the best letter I have ever received. I was at St. Monica's Home for Girls for the first time. Earlier in the day, I had met...

12 Days of Giving: The Gift of Sleep

This is the fourth in our special “12 Days of Giving” series running for the holiday season. It’s a little different from what you might think of as traditional presents...

12 Days of Giving: The Gift of Happiness

This is the third in our special “12 Days of Giving” series running for the holiday season. It’s a little different from what you might think of as traditional presents...

Dear Hotels: Stop with the bottled water!

I have a message for hotels: please, please, STOP with the endless disposable bottles of water that you insist on providing to guests daily. This is one area where the...

Letting go of your kids

When I divorced the father of my three kids and was granted full custody after a hellish, drama-filled year in court, I consciously crafted a life for the kids and...

Volunteering and Going on Safari in Tanzania

In 2012, Keith and I took an amazing trip to Kenya and Tanzania. While we were there, we were lucky enough to be able to go on safari, and some...

Passports with Purpose, the travel blogging fundraiser, is raising money now through December 17, 2014 to help farmers in Honduras with Sustainable Harvest International (SHI). For $10 a try you can...

Travel Changes Everything: Giving Girls the Gift of Seeing the World

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard It’s literally the ticket...

Bringing Education, and Hope, to Cambodia’s Children

My "Trading Places" stories usually have to do with me experiencing life in another place. Today, however, I would like to reverse that and share the Trading Places story of...

Top 5 Reasons to Volunteer on your Travels

This Sunday, I set out for my seventh trip to India, each of which has included a week's stay at a children's home in the northeastern state of Odisha. In...

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