Dear Reader:

Wanderlust is actually a feeling that represents the urge to break from everyday life and experience something new and unknown. We usually associate this term with people who prefer travel and new unknown experiences over stability and consistency…. a ” rolling stone.”

Growing up I was only brave enough to explore the unknown through my imagination… safe and sound in my bed.

But as time passed and my acute case of homesickness finally subsided … I slowly began venturing out …a little farther at a time until the day came when I voluntarily competed for a trip to Utah… a national educational conference ( IMPACT II) -this lead to a follow up conference in Miami, a Teacher Exchange in Denmark, a Goethe Social Studies Leadership ( all-paid) trip to Germany, an International Creativity Workshop in Provence, France. I experienced Ireland and Maine with Anne… ( after being diagnosed with on-going breast cancer)

Little “homebody” Becky finally realized that once you give permission to your yearning spirit to soar… it does. And the Chapel of Hope in Trust, North Carolina freed my spirit to ” travel” through my daily writings… sharing my life experiences, to date, with others.

So until tomorrow… After confronting a serious cancer diagnosis and learning to live with this disease daily… ( my new normalcy) my wanderlust spirit now recognizes that life, itself, even under challenging conditions can be beautiful and defies limitations.

Today is my favorite day -Winnie the Pooh