July 21st, 2009

The Tao of Family Vacations

I can’t imagine a better place to spend my 43rd birthday than Kauai.

I warned my daughter and husband that this was to be a quiet, contemplative trip full of reading, meditation and healthy eating. Mostly because I had been sick with a sinus infection for way too long — and because I had just re-read “Eat Pray Love” and “A New Earth.”   I wanted that kind of mind-altering transcendence but I was going to do it on a family vacation right next to the kiddy pool.

Soon after arriving at a Kauai condo, I was unlucky enough to trip and drop an unused compact, shattering the mirror. Thankfully, my daughter Savannah was out at the pool with her Dad and not at my side where she customarily resides. If it weren’t for my unfortunate bout of gastro-intestinal rebellion after the myriad of homeopathic remedies I had been imbibing, she could very well have been hit with a shard of glass.

Lucky. Continue… »

By Robyn Murphy