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Home: The Place that says Family

It’s been hard for me to come home from Eastern Europe. I leave one home that I rarely get to visit for another. I leave the adventure of travel for the drudgery of routine. I have to remind myself why I love (and why we chose) this place. Places are like families to me. Sometimes you […]

Thankful in Remembering

Now that we’ve returned from our trip to Eastern Europe, and I’ve knocked a little of the fog from my jet-lagged brain, I want to take a moment to reflect. So many things to be thankful for.                 Fun and Exciting Adventure We saw 15 castles or fortresses […]

Dreams, Nightmares, Angels

We got off our riverboat (Steve’s idea of a perfect vacation) and started the second half:  Taryn’ s Terrific Transilvanian Train Tour! Since my name is Taryn and my unfulfilled dream is to be a tour guide in Eastern Europe, it’s not hard to guess which way I prefer. We visited three towns in the […]

Telling the truth

We ended our cruise tour in Bucharest, my first real home away from my home country. I felt a thrill once I stepped off the boat, and as our bus drove past familiar, yet vastly spruced-up sights, I swelled with pride. Around every corner, I see memories. Good memories that make me laugh. Some that […]

The Need to Get Along

The countries of former Yugoslavia are dear to me. The first time I left the U.S., I went to Belgrade and Dubrovnik. One was in the Serbian republic and the other in the Croatian one. I fell in love with the people, so full of life, so easy to talk with, even about long-forbidden spiritual […]

Free to be Rich or Poor

We made it. Back to the lands I love. I’m having a grand time–except for one thing. I feel conflicted. It’s time I come clean.  I‘m having a hard time with one area of my life. There’s something that I wish I could keep to myself, but I’m too excited about this trip to do […]

Can You Love a Place?

I’ve been thinking about the importance of place lately. Why, you may ask. Because I’m going home. Actually, I’m going home to two homes. Are there places you love? Places you consider home, even when you don’t live there and perhaps haven’t lived there for decades? I have many. I’ve lived in places that I’ll hold dear […]

Transition Ahead

You know that feeling when you have worked hard and completed something challenging and you can sit back and catch your breath? It’s a mixture of accomplishment and exhaustion. That’s how I feel today. I have completed another commencement season. This time I did five ceremonies in three cities, made especially difficult because of a huge rainstorm […]

A free book and a free mug!

What can be better than a free book? Especially if it’s a book like Everbloom, with deeply personal stories that you won’t be able to put down. Maybe the only thing better is a book and a custom mug! Stories just seem to go together with coffee (or tea or hot chocolate), don’t they? TODAY, through […]

Finding Your Voice

Everbloom launches today! Everbloom is written by women Redbuds, my writing guild. I’m humbled to be one of the authors among such a talented group, and proud to be part of something so wonderful. I couldn’t put my copy down! It contains cathartic stories of pain, loss, struggle, beauty, and redemption. From the beginning, our hope for this book […]