Irish author Josephine Hart writes “There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.” Yesterday, as I drove down a now familiar stretch of road between Bragg Creek and Black Diamond, Alberta, I found myself...
As I sit in my cozy little apartment in Cochrane, watching the fluffy blanket of snow gradually thicken outside, I can’t help but think warm thoughts of my day of adventure yesterday at The Banff Mountain Festival. This day has long been in my calendar as...
On the way home last weekend from a Vagabond Photography adventure to Writing on Stone Provincial Park, I found this recently harvested wheat field dwarfed by an enormous, blue, staggeringly beautiful Alberta sky. I was amazed. And profoundly moved, as happens on many...
In a week where terrorism visited Canadian soil, forcing Canadians to question their safety perhaps for the first time, Martin Luther’s quote stands out as a challenge to all of us: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot...
Author George R.R. Martin’s full quote goes as follows: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” The past two days I was fortunate to find myself working at the Special Education Conference held...
Hi, I’m Patti, wonderer, wanderer and photographer. During the week I’m a marketer in the publishing industry and on weekends I take to the road to explore this beautiful planet we live on.