Word Traveling

Category: Travel

  • Where in the wor(d) Wednesdays?

    For some time, I’ve wanted to share images  I’ve captured around the world with other writers as a tool for inspiration… Without further ado, I announce “Where in the World Wednesdays?” The format is this: 1) Check in on Wednesday to the “where in the world Wednesday?” link, right here on Word Traveling 2. Grab…

  • carousel

    Step right up! Tokens, please… What are you waiting for? Enjoy the Breeze! It’s carvings so intricate- Paintings- just perfect. Fairy tale horses waiting Just to be pet. Touch  your hand to her reign, One foot in a stirrup, Whoosh, up you swing- Brings her (and you) to life with A skip and a gallop!…

  • Moving Day

      Blog moving is just about as fun as house-moving. HAH! Something we’re all too familiar with… Let’s see… in the past 11 years since Luis and I met, I’ve lived… …Jupiter, Florida …Orlando, Florida …Myrtle Beach, South Carolina …Las Vegas, Nevada …Europe- all over, but mostly from the back of our Volvo XC90 (Spain, Italy, France,…

  • A page from Paris with Kids

    A little word art… from old travel books and my photos…inspired by an article I read in Florida Weekly about an artist named Austin Kleon. In between preparing to move and renovate a new home, homeschooling and keeping our family running, I’ve been following along on a 15-day writer’s challenge from a friend and mentor, Jeff Goins. Last night,…

  • 7 Secrets to a Non-Conforming Homeschool

    This was originally written for the Home Educating Family blog. Click over there and read the descriptions of a non-conforming homeschool! Do you remember a song from your childhood that sang “Make new friends, but keep the old… one is silver and the other gold?” One of my “silver” friends is a recent Floridian transplant…

  • Valentine’s Haiku

    We are studying poetry in our homeschool right now, so I felt it appropriate to write a little haiku for each of the men I love in my life- on handmade marbled paper cards. We made the paper at Christmas time- it was supposed to be red, but turned out more pink and purple so…