a little more like evelyn

I recently saw “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” playing for free in our little two-theatre cinema on base. In the movie a handful of aging Brits decide to leave their country and move to India to live out their twilight years as ex-pats in this “refurbished”...

and the winner is . . .

Thank you to all of you who left a comment for a chance to win Katie Gardner’s amazing travel print. The winner of the giveaway (chosen randomly) is . . . KATHY M.!!! Kathy, please email me at leeana (at) gypsyink (dot) com with your address and we will get your...

Of Things Unknown But Longed For Still

This post originally appeared on my blog in honor of July 4, 2010, but I wanted to share it with you again for those who had not read it . . . because the words are still as true for me today as they were two years ago. Our “babies” are little people now...

travel print giveaway

(Italy by Katie Gardner) I’ve decided to begin and end July with awesome giveaways – yeah for summer! – and here is the first . . . I’m so happy to bring you one of my all-time favorite photographers, Katie Gardner. Katie is out of San Diego, and when we lived there,...

june in pictures

A few images for you to enjoy . . . a bit of June in Bahrain through my eyes . . . looking at rugs is a favorite pastime . . . a rug shop is like a museum in many ways . . . loved this beauty with its pink, raspberry, plum, salmon . . . rich and yet girly, too. i...

Nouwen, Paul, Pressfield

The following gorgeousness arrived in my life this week. Thought I’d share these three pieces of found art that, each in their own way, threw me a lifeline . . . FIRST . . . sent to me from my mother-in-law . . . a beauty from Nouwen: “There is a hole in your being,...