I’m not a hiker. I don’t know diddly squat about hiking. Maybe I hiked up some slope in my youth but, let’s just say I don’t own hiking boots or anything like that so doing a mountain hike in Stowe, Vermont was a first. I suppose most people visit Stowe for the skiing. But my […]

To be honest, my expectations for a road trip to Canada were low. For 30 years, my husband would periodically say, “Let’s drive to Canada” and I would always say, “Eh. Let’s not. What’s in Canada? Let’s go somewhere else.” After 3 decades, Phil finally wore me down with, “It will be a FIRST for […]

I know sometimes when I tell my story of how daily first time experiences got my life “unstuck” people think, “That’s just what happened to her. That journey would never work for me.” Even I might believe the life changing results of my “year of firsts” was just an anecdotal experience if I didn’t hear […]

Even though I’m not a big fan of yoga somehow my favorite event of the year is the biggest annual yoga outdoor class in the city. How is that? Hmmmm. It’s standing with over 2-thousand women on the Philadelphia art museum steps and stretching our arms to the sky all at the same time. It’s […]