Last month, Mr. Wild Dingo installed the on and off ramps to the tree house and raised their flag at full staff. They were dismantled for safety reasons while we were living in Switzerland. Juno was pleased as punch. Lately she enjoys eating her raw bones up there after her morning runs. Both dogs are [...]
Every now and then, Mr. Wild Dingo and I will put on an old play list and this song by Tom Waits will play. Every time without fail, one of us will always say, “Maggie’s song.” It was very clear how seasons affected Maggie, especially later in life. In January, her mood and energy would [...]
Fresh air and exercise agrees with everyone. According to Mr. Wild Dingo, who noticed Juno’s elevated mood lately as she teased Loki into games of tug and play: “There’s just something about good exercise that agrees with the husky.” Huh. Who needs health studies and medical associations to tell us the obvious? If the husky’s [...]
I’ve been wanting to use this photo for over a year. I can’t think of a more appropriate time than now. Nine and a half days. I made it through 9 and a half days of a 10 day fast. Yup. I was short just 8 hours. You may be saying “Doh! You were so [...]
We’ve been spending our holiday vacation balancing time between the forest wilderness and the wilderness of unpacked moving boxes and heaps of stuff that needs to be recycled, donated or thrown out. Slowly we’re making our way into an organized home. The old me wouldn’t do anything else until the house was unpacked and settled [...]
The first official header I ever did for Wild Dingo in 2009 was a photo of these two, newly thrown-together siblings, snuggling, just like this. It seems some things never change. There’s a great comfort in that. Because returning to a familiar place after living in an entirely different world for two years, changes you. [...]
We’ve been home in California for a few days now and already back in our usual routine. Oddly, the thing that was the hardest to adapt to in Switzerland, the lack of commercialism on Sunday’s, is the thing that is giving me the biggest reverse culture shock. The car dealer was open late on Saturday night [...]
It’s harvest time. Fall is the beginning of an end. And yet the colors are breath-taking. Beautiful, yet final.
For someone who has a mild allergy to bees (bad enough to land me in the hospital but mild enough not to need an EpiPen just yet), I sure love to get up close and personal with them. Bugs fascinate me. I could watch ants work for hours. And bees. Oh bees!
This time, I was on a mission: shoot the clock at the Musée d’Orsay in ways its never been shot before. I didn’t use a camera filter, but I did use a filter in the environment of the museum itself. And it was a complete mind-frack for the passing people. They looked at me as if I was crazy. Then, they [...]
That’s right. I’m reposting this same ‘ole boring photo as I posted a few days ago and using it as July’s masthead. Because I’m dedicating the rest of this summer to getting high again. Well, at least one more time.
Mr. Wild Dingo has been complaining a lot lately about the weather. No seriously. He has. Because it looks like this for me every weekday, but the weekends, when he can enjoy the outdoors, it’s been very windy and raining. And it’s not like either of us is immune to being outdoors in bad weather. [...]
Tra la! It’s May! The lusty month of May! That lovely month when ev’ryone goes Blissfully astray.
Yesterday, my pet sitter back in the U.S. pointed out that the flowers in the last post were not peonies, but crocus. Like I said, I’m not a gardener, but she’s lucky I didn’t call them Rhododendrons. For years now, my brother TravelMarx, who has a botany passion, has tried to educate me on plants and flowers. But to no [...]
When we first moved to Switzerland, I listened to this song from The Postal Service a lot around the house and on the bike trainer. I felt like it was a great description of our lives here. Mr. Wild Dingo was always traveling and I was always missing him. Living abroad is a dream opportunity that many aspire to, but [...]
Phthph! This month’s masthead is totally sappy. I don’t do sappy well. I hemmed and hawed. I kicked and stammered. But Mr. Wild Dingo, who’s even less sappier than me, twisted my arm and told me to run it. It’s just as well. This week, I’m giving a yoga class themed on love in light [...]
This month’s header is dedicated to my favorite song by Prince that I’ve been playing on my iPod whenever I ride the indoor bike trainer. Shortly after returning home from Istanbul, I got serious about solving my health problems. I was pretty sick this summer before my London trip in July. Remember how I fell [...]
I’m so depressed. This time last year we had a Winter Woonderland. There was fresh snow and visiting family. Now, there isn’t a flake of snow in sight. How could I top last year’s masthead?
“Princess, where are we going?” “Daddy-O, we are already there.”
When I met Mr. Wild Dingo, his home was filled with tons of sun themes. I like the sun. I like sunny days. But if given the choice of my favorite celestial object, sun, moon or stars, I’ll pick the moon every time. And autumn harvest moons are my favorites. I don’t know why I’m [...]