by Jackie | Living Deliberately, The One With, Writing Life
“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth…. Nothing anywhere else is like them.” ~Marjory Stoneman Douglas The Florida Everglades is a big place — 1.5 million acres to...
by Jackie | Life Happens, The One With
Syrup is big business. So big that two years ago it was the object of a major heist — an $18 million heist of six million gallons — from a Canadian syrup cartel. The Coen Brothers are making a movie about it. If this all sounds a little too fantastical to...
by Jackie | Living Deliberately, The One With, Writing Life
Every now and then I come across a book that has been collecting dust on my shelves. I’ll buy a book, add it to the pile and then for some reason never get around to reading it. Right now that book is Edith Wharton’s masterpiece The House of...
by Jackie | Life Happens, The One With
DAY 1, cont’d. a.k.a Angering the Goddess Pele We last left our plucky but determined heroine riding down the Haleakalā volcano on a small bicycle while wearing a large helmet. (Cue dramatic music.) We’d watched a serene, breathtaking sunrise from the top...
by Jackie | Living Deliberately, The One With, Writing Life
I must interrupt part two of the harrowing and riveting tale of my encounter with the Goddess Pele to tell you about A Tale of Two Comments. The first was what I’ll call the Worst of Comments. A few weeks ago, a negative (and anonymous) remark came from a...
by Jackie | Life Happens, The One With
Last weekend, I was moving some things around in my closet and found this business card on the floor tucked behind some storage bins. Somehow it survived a move, several closet reorganizations and the actual camera, which was the reason I had it in the first...
