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My Yearly Retreat to “Escape Completely” 27 Dec 2012 | 09:57 pm
For 358 days a year, my life is devoted to reality. Since I’m the kind of person who takes my work home with me, the heart patients I care for throughout the day are really with me all the time. Somet...
Playing Santa at Sea 18 Dec 2012 | 10:43 pm
One Christmas, my wife and I broke with tradition and packed our bags for a Princess cruise to Antarctica. It felt a little strange to be leaving home when all the songs on the radio pined, “I’ll be H...
A Honeymoon on the Ship Where We Met 11 Dec 2012 | 10:27 pm
I lived in San Diego, Kathleen in Chicago. We found each other on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Neither of us was looking for love – we were 20-year-old college students and she had a...
Learning to Cruise on our Own 4 Dec 2012 | 10:38 pm
My husband, Todd, and I were suffering from an acute case of empty-nest syndrome. Our children, Angela and Bobby, had done what children do—they’d grown up and moved on with their lives. Our friends s...
From A Shipboard Romance to an Anniversary at Sea 28 Nov 2012 | 01:12 am
Our three children have never tired of hearing about how I met their mother so many years ago. I would delight in telling them about how something as happenstance as a fluttering kerchief on a deck of...
Celebrating A Lifetime of Travel Memories 20 Nov 2012 | 10:06 pm
When I joined my parents for a cruise aboard Caribbean Princess last year, we celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary – and a lifetime of travel adventures. Mom and Dad met in graduate school and ma...
The Perfect Vacation With or Without the Kids 13 Nov 2012 | 10:20 pm
We parents know how tough it can be to find time to ourselves without a worry about the kids. On vacation together, that can be even harder. Well, I think I’ve found the perfect way to achieve the e...
One Last Cruise 6 Nov 2012 | 10:22 pm
In June of 2008, my wife, Margie, and I shared a final cruise with a comrade-in-arms, Bill Strati, and his wife, Toni. Bill, Al “Buck” Buckelew, and I had all served together in a reconnaissance plato...
Cruising with My New Sisters 30 Oct 2012 | 08:17 pm
There’s a light-headed feeling you get when you realize you’ve been found. I was not looking for my birth family…I’d been raised by loving parents since the age of six weeks. But the phone rang anyway...
Breaking Down a “Great Wall” 23 Oct 2012 | 09:26 pm
At almost 80 my dad lives, and thrives! He’s found the essence of life. And it happened in January aboard Coral Princess somewhere between Cartagena and Panama City. Both he and I, his daughter, have ...
