Fifty years ago on September 20, 1967 a naïve young woman boarded the Spanish freighter, Mar Egeo, at a New Orleans wharf for a two-week voyage to Barcelona, and a new life. Alone, with little money and no skills in Spanish – the only language of the crew and the other two passengers – she was on her way, blindly, to meet up with a former boyfriend who had simply made her a promise she couldn’t refuse: “Come to Spain,” he said, “and I’ll write poetry on your breast.” What rom

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, three friends in various strains of mid-life crisis join a two-week-cattle-drive getaway adventure that turns into a life-changing event. When Billy Crystal’s character Mitch reaches a bewildering low point, Curly, the wizened resident cowboy, (played by Jack Palance) cryptically shares his words of wisdom. "This one thing I do," he only says. Not until Mitch sees all the pretenses of his life stripped away and he comes face to face with his o

“When you’ve come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,” said the oft-quoted Unknown author, “Faith is knowing one of two things will happen – There will be something solid to stand on, or you will learn how to fly.” In troubled trying waters as we are in today, we want to understand what we should do, say, or even think, and so we look for a life raft—something to at least keep us afloat while we figure it out. And