It was nine years ago today…on my 50th birthday…that I launched this blog with a post called Giving Up Greece or Why I Started This Blog. And I did it with a bang. Announcing my intent to quit my job, sell everything, buy an RV and travel for the foreseeable future. Today, my 59th birthday, […]



Now and again, I’ll hand someone one of my business cards and remind myself I need to design new ones because my Supersize Life cards (three different iterations), since I first printed them in 2016, say “new content every Monday.” I know I have been quiet the past couple of years. The truth is, it […]
Last week, I set the stage. Not a complicated one, to be sure. I suspect if you have ever been to a high school reunion, it had a ring of familiarity. But today’s post is the heart of the matter. What is a high school reunion really about? What are the moments of clarity and […]
In midsummer (last year), I returned to Wyoming for my dad’s 91st birthday and the fourth 10-year anniversary of my 10-year high school reunion. For those of you not good at math, that means I may have been attending my 40th reunion. No matter how it might have felt, indeed, it was the 40th. We […]
I am a planner. If you’ve been reading this blog or know me personally, you already know this. When it comes to adventures, I research for hours. I get almost as much pleasure out of the planning of travel and adventures as I do the travel and adventure itself. That said, every once in a […]
No, it’s not a typo. Let’s just say I’m a little late in getting this post out. When I started this post, it was going to be the Lists of First–that’s Lists with an “s”–for both 2022 and 2023. But with so many fun things to report, I decided to break them up into two […]