World Classroom

It was a beautiful winter’s day in July. We were in Tasmania, an island off the southern tip of Australia, to attend the Festival of Voices  with the Sydney Children’s…

Trekking mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. I can’t image a more glorious….. mysterious….. magical sentence. Recalling the memories gives me chills:  The hot, sticky hike up the mountain,…

I remember the panicked phone call from my mom. It was 2009, and Hubby and I were in Caracas, the world’s most violent city. And while we knew  the State…

The first time I traveled abroad was on a choir tour of Lithuania during my senior year of college. Our university had an exchange program with a university in Siauliai,…

I feel like I’m always busy. My “To Do” list never seems to get any shorter, and sometimes I feel like a chicken with its head cut off. (Sorry… file…

Iowa is a LONG way from the ocean. I mean it’s really, really far. One of the things I love about living in New England is the opportunity to go…

I was 21 the first time I left the United States.  Until then I had barely even been outside the Midwest.  I was a senior in college, and my choir…

Okay. If you haven’t already noticed, Hubby is black and I’m white.  (Cue Michael Jackson…) To us, it is what it is.  We are able to learn from each other’s…

There’s a Whole Foods down the street from my house that sells beautiful bananas, in a display that includes a brief explanation of their “Environmentally Responsible” label. Increasing numbers of…