Where is Your Head?

Unless you spend a lot of time birdwatching, picking fruit, flying a kite, or stargazing, you are probably bringing your head out of alignment most of the day.  Where should it be?  Centered and balanced over your spine. Where is it?  Most likely too far forward.

Kyphosis, curvature of the spineIt’s not just the ever-increasing time we spend on our mobile phones, other activities also contribute: reading, house cleaning, cooking, gardening, crafts, tending to children and pets.  Any time you are working with your hands, you are looking down and forward.  Unless you have an ergonomic configuration for your desktop computer (more likely in an office than at home), your head is probably forward. Continue reading

Reimagining Colombia

Women dressed in the colors of the Colombian flagIn the beginning of 2018, I became a “digital nomad”. I joined a remote work/travel group planning to go to So. America for four months: a month in each of Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia. The first three months went well (as recounted in previous blogs) but the organization running the excursion was showing signs of collapse and I, wisely but reluctantly, decided to skip the last month in Colombia.  When I heard that NextTribe was offering a trip there, I saw it as a way to “close the circle” and check it off the list of missed opportunities.
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Hiking in Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park entrance signFor many years, every winter my sons and I have gone on a week-long ski trip, usually with the local ski club.  Often it was the only time all three of us got together.  Since I’ve stopped skiing, I’ve tried to replace this annual event with a hiking trip.  Last year we went to Tucson, AZ to visit and hike with my brother.  This year we decided to join a small group of ski-club friends who were going to Big Bend National Park.  As it turned out, there were a few ups and downs to this memorable trip.
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