Did I get your attention?!?  Good!  Now listen up!  What you read is true...I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to Europe for FREE the past two summers and am going on my third free trip to Europe next week!  So how did I manage this?  By sponsoring and leading student trips, that’s how!!  :-D  Basically, if enough students sign up for your trip, you get to travel for free.  In the summer of 2015, I led my first student trip to Spain with WorldStrides, the leader in educational travel (with 50 years of experience).  I took a small

As a dear friend shared with me recently, there’s a saying from AA that goes, “Sometimes God does for you what you can’t do for yourself,” or in many cases, what you won’t do for yourself.  At the age of 34, I found myself  in the third long-term relationship of my adult years, and this relationship was going nowhere fast.  The last two months of our two-year relationship were full of long, tearful discussions, fights, and many misunderstandings.  We weren’t connecting on any level whatsoever, but I thought our love for each other would conquer all and get us through

Pack a “Go Bag.”  My go bag is a small pouch/bag/satchel that fits inside of my carry-on.  I put my necessities inside of this pouch to keep at my seat with me, which I pull out before stowing my carry-on in the overhead bin.  There’s nothing more irritating than being stuck behind a person boarding the plane that takes forever to get seated and settled.  You can avoid being that annoying person by having your go bag ready to go at the top of your carry-on.  So what’s in my go bag??  I always include my ear buds/headphones, travel pillow,