Woken from a deep sleep by competing calls to prayer coming from the mosques around us. 6am wake up call. We uncharacteristically stayed...

After a flight delay, missed connection, nose bleed on board, tarmac sitting, rebooking - we made it to the AirFrance lounge in Paris 4...

Welcome! We are Rick & Kassie Runyan. Hailing from NYC (for the last 7 years) and we LOVE travel. We try to take multiple trips per year...

in a family with a history I was born to the mom that shed her family's past and fought for a better life. I'm the lucky one. ​ in a...

I sat on a wooden bench that someone had attempted to create for lounging comfortably. At least for ten minutes at a time. Stuffed in...

March 26th - This is 2020 part two - will be available at Amazon, B&N, local bookstores and more!!! Until then - we still have the...

So excited to announce that This is 2020 part two is available for PRE-ORDER! On top of that - as a Thank You and to celebrate the Global...

Eyes were shut to the world, but I was awake. Trying to delay the start of the day. I heard a slight scratch and opened my eyes to see...

I opened my eyes to see the tall grass swaying above me; the orange sky above it. How many times have I been here now? I was so exhausted...

HER NAME She haunts me. Daily. When I wake up, she hides under the bed for only a moment. Teasing that she went away. I blink and she’s...

A groan fell out of my mouth as I thudded to a seating position on the hot gravel and waited hopefully for a wind to cool the sweat that...

There was nothing but a hollow feeling as I walked down the clean paved road and away from the home of the man who died. If I was waiting...

I died today. I found myself slowly falling back to the earth, feeling weightless as I floated down and down, stopping with a light thud

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Dots In The Land where people used to stand now dots in the land one for each soul moved on perhaps to a great beyond voices silenced for...

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the song they sit around the fire as it burns to ash the light dimming now shining in the the eyes of the people sitting around the...

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