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Day One: 17 Travel Hours, Three Flights, and Two Cups of Hot Coca
Despite my misgivings about booking an itinerary that went Los Angeles – Panama City – Lima – Cuzco, all three flights departed perfectly on time and I could not have hoped for smoother travels. The...
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Day Two: Cuzco by Day, Cuzco by Night
I discovered how long it takes to start feeling symptoms of altitude sickness, and the answer is about twelve hours. At 5:30 a.m. I woke up with such a killer of a headache all I could manage to do was...
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Day Three: Seventeen Trekkers In Cuzco
Seventeen of our eighteen trekkers are now in Cuzco, with Joanna doing a circuitous route of the globe thanks to KLM. She’s thankfully scheduled to arrive first thing in the morning and then our group...
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Day Four: Herding Butterflies and the Children of Ninos del Sol
I’ve been having some technical difficulties here with the internet so had to skip posting last night — having spent nearly an hour trying to hold on to a Skype connection so I could talk to my husband...
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Day Five: On the Chain Gang
Today was our group’s work day at Ninos del Sol, where we began as soon as we arrived. Most of the kids were at school so we had half a day where 15 of us helped build a greenhouse, three learned how...
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Day Six: When Women Shop
Our mission today? To take 21 kids shopping in downtown Cuzco for warm jackets, sweaters, underwear, socks, pants, and shoes. Divide and Conquer was the only viable plan. We took off in groups of five...
View ArticleA Mother’s Day Letter to Motherless Daughters
Dear Friends, It’s a cloudy yet bright day in Los Angeles, the kind of day where it feels like anything can happen – a light drizzle can begin, the temperature can drop without warning, or a shaft of...
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Motherless Daughters Retreat with Hope & Claire
The first Motherless Daughters Retreat, which I’ll be co-facilitating with the wonderful author and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith (The Rules of Inheritance, After This), will take place from August...
View Article2016 Luncheons for Motherless Daughters
Twenty-one years ago, a small group of motherless daughters in New York City organized the first Motherless Daughters Day Luncheon in Manhattan and about a dozen other cities nationwide. We believed...
View ArticleA Letter to Motherless Daughters on Mother’s Day, from the author of...
Dear Readers, Dear Friends, Dear Sisters of the Heart, Yesterday afternoon I attended a Motherless Daughters Day luncheon in Costa Mesa, California, sponsored by Motherless Daughters of Orange County....
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