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What do you resist examining up close? How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get lost in a book.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

If you can’t remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you’re overdue.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Each of us knows when it’s time to wake, eat and rest. We don’t need to read a clock for these activities; we need to listen.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and sol...

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

In these pages, traveling “solo” does not necessarily mean “alone.” The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. “Solo” by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into the world, magnetizing us to new people and experiences...

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road