I noticed something at the tail end of last year that kind of threw me… Imagine this: It’s Christmas day, my dad is here with his wife, and my kids are unwrapping presents on the floor. My grandmother calls to wish us a merry day. My dad puts her on speakerphone, so we can all […]
Last week, I surveyed our members about where they’d go if someone else foot the bill. I was surprised by the results… The most common answer was Australia (11.61%). Followed by New Zealand (10.38%) and then Europe and Africa. 54 people wrote that they’d go “anywhere.” And, 62 more said “everywhere,” which isn’t surprising (but […]
I’ve been around the world several times now and never have I seen views like these… That’s me in the red jacket – the tiny speck on the end of the cliff. I admit it was a bit cold, so I stayed cuddled up with my husband in a coat before stripping down to pose […]
You really get to know a person when you spend hours and hours hiking with them on dangerous terrain. My new photographer friend Nigel, for example, never complains when he’s hiking with a heavy backpack full of camera gear. But put him in a chair for more than 30 minutes and he’s in pain. If […]
In the Faroe Islands, people live in grass-covered cottages, and when the grass gets too long, they pick up a sheep and put him on the roof. That’s their grass-cutter. It’s fascinating, honestly. And quite beautiful to photograph. It’s Day 2 here in the Faroes (these notes are from my journal), and this has to […]
I’m hungry. I’m cold. And I’m a bit terrified. Earlier this year, I made a phone call that changed some things. Every year, as part of my personal growth goals, I call 100 people and I ask them what they learned this past year. I’m always looking for what’s working, what’s not working, and what […]
There’s an expression in the Bedouin culture that means you are 2/3 your uncle. A mother’s brother plays an important role in raising the kids. They say they can identify which family a child belongs to by the way they act more than the way they look. The child may look like he belongs to […]
Jordan took a little piece of my heart last week. If you’ve been a reader for a long time, you know that Tanzania ranks at the very top of my list of places to see. But Jordan—and the way I saw it last week through humanitarian photographer Joe Sindorf’s eyes—might just beat it. It has […]
Sitting in the back of a 4-wheel-drive pickup, making our way through the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan where Moses once led 300,000 Israelites out of Egypt, it was hard to stop reflecting on what I might be doing at home in this moment if I were not here. Would I be bathing my children? […]
Shridhar Chillal, the Guinness World Record holder for world’s longest fingernails, cut them off this year. His thumbnail alone was over six feet long. At 82, he had been growing the nails on his left hand for over 60 years. Now you can see them on display at Ripley’s Believe it or Not in Times […]
