I love the "new" Treasure Island in Troy, Ohio.  It's remarkable  how memories belonging to a 6 year-old (now grown) still remain: a mahogany Chris Craft wooden boat sportster with the 350 Chevy engine carving out the river. Feeling the apprehension as we turned to...

   I grew up in Central Pennsylvania where my family had a pool membership at Woodridge Swim Club in Lititz, and we regularly visited the shore at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. While I enjoyed both, Mount Gretna Lake still holds a special place in my heart.   The small ...

By Mary Kay Gehring I felt the tug on my line about the same time my cousin Jim tapped my arm and pointed up. Sitting on a branch just ahead of our boat was a bald eagle, probably thinking I was stealing its fish. Just a couple hours earlier we had watched a great b...

Sometimes life reminds us that despite our to-do lists and lofty goals the best thing we can do is bring things back to basics. Sometimes the best way to get "things done" is to just stop. To take stock of where we are and how far we've come. To trust that things a...

I keep thinking about gratitude and resilience. On Thursday we headed out to the Oregon coast with two fully loaded cars for a surf getaway. We planned on staying a week. And, despite checking before we left, when we got there the air quality in Manzanita was wors...

There are two ways to go about it: we can change things about our surroundings to help us relax or we can relax and center, and then delve into our surroundings. The second way can feel less intuitive but it’s the most sustaining. And I’m rediscovering that it’s a ...