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by Lisa-Jo | Feb 24, 2010 | Travel
I can’t wait for you to meet, Alece. She’s the shorter, green-eyed, cool-tattooed version of me. And she’s spent more time in my homeland the last decade or so than I have. I try not to hold that against her. When we met the first time she shocked my...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 20, 2010 | Family, Kids, Sweetstuff, Travel
Sometimes you are so homesick you can taste it. And today it tastes like birthday cake. My little brother turns 8 today. And I am not there. But worse than that, my oldest son is not there. Jackson and Karabo; Karabo and Jackson. They have been friends since Jackson...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jan 18, 2010 | Travel
I’ve been hitch hiking down memory lane. Enjoying the view. Remembering the smells. Because it’s been almost two years since we last boarded a 747 headed toward the Southern Cross. Two years is a lifetime when measured in relationships. Relationships that...
by Lisa-Jo | Dec 31, 2009 | A year of "no", Callings, Faith, Inbetween, Travel
I’ve been digging through some of my old baggage – sharing pieces of the year God told us a whole lot of “no” and not much else. My hope is that it might encourage you if you find yourself stuck in a place where your prayers seem to be bouncing...
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by Lisa-Jo | Dec 7, 2009 | Christmas, Faith, Travel
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake – Auguries of Innocence Last week, on the sandy shores of the island of Zanzibar my little brother, Joshua, caught...
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by Lisa-Jo | Dec 2, 2009 | Travel
At 3:40 this morning I was snuggling in bed with my nearly two year old, still in Virginia. At 4:40 this morning I was headed into Washington DC to hop a flight to a conference. Seasoned traveler that I am (insert irony here) I had all my little travel sized items in...
