The Year in Travels

New Year's in Toronto, where I got to meet a PFO friend and as a family we did some touristy stuff:

The College of Wooster (OH), where I helped direct a Busy Persons' Retreat:

 

Dearborn, thanks to an invitation to help with an Ecumenical Women's Lenten Retreat:

 

 

Wernersville (PA) Jesuit Center for my own retreat and a week-end led by Marty Laird, O.S.A., author of Into the Silent Land:

 

 

Washington, D.C. to lobby for suicide prevention legislation:

 

 

Providence (RI) to hang out with family:

 

 

and go to Waterfire:

 

 

and journey to Boston:

 

 

and spend a few days in Little Compton:

 

 

and one on Block Island:

 

 

Atlanta, to attend an Older Adult Ministries Conference and to remember Josh:

 

 

A pilgrimage to Chicago, ashes in hand, with meet-ups with a RevGal, another Loyola Press friend, and a classmate of Josh's:

 

 

A day in Columbus to witness Matt sworn in to the Ohio Bar:

 

 

A snowy family Thanksgiving in Jamestown (NY):

 

 

And a Christmas trip home to southern Ohio and the Catholic portion of my roots:

 

 

I was under the impression that I hadn't gotten to go anywhere this year!  I guess I meant that I didn't get to the beach in Florida, a situation which needs to be remedied asap.  But it seems that I got around.