Road Trip

Oh how the road sings to me! She really does. This was no more true than during my most recent road trip in July on The Blues Highway. My drive with Yoda through Mississippi brought me all I look for in a road trip – new cultural experiences, a bit of history, friendly people, and […]

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I’m sitting in my Jackson, Missouri hotel room after a nine hour day of driving, en route to Austin after a month away.  All those hours in a car give me a lot of time to analyze (and sometimes over-analyze) things in my life. What was on my mind today was a conversation I had […]

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Dear 2013, “What happened to your sex life?” These were the first words out of Starr’s mouth when she saw me on New Year’s Eve. Starr is the Curandera who took me in for five weeks after we serendipitously met as I was passing through Hot Springs, Arkansas on my five month road trip. My […]

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In the wake of this week’s senseless tragedy of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting that left 26 dead in Newtown, Connecticut, I’m compelled to write about a tiny movement that has started with my friend Beth Howard. Beth is the author of Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie.  She lives […]

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stale /stāl/ Adjective (of food) No longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry: “stale bread”. Wednesday night I was telling a friend about the wild ride I’ve been on during the past two years.  While nursing a glass of wine, I explained to him how liberating it has been living outside of […]

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One of the many gifts the road has sent my way is a friendship with an inspiring woman named Carlyn Shaw.  We were introduced through an equally inspiring woman, Shanti, whom I met on my road trip in Boise, Idaho.  Although Carlyn and I have yet to meet in person, through social media, e-mails and […]

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“I like your cowgirl boots,” gushed the beautiful bubbly brunette woman who had just climbed into the back of the limo with me. I thanked her, while quietly reflecting on how these boots symbolize my Seeking Shama journey of the past two years.  The road, my beloved open road, had led me to these boots.  Somehow, […]

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Give and You Shall Receive

by Kee Kee on October 7, 2012

in Cowgirl,Inspiration

“A stranger gave me his car,” said my houseguest Wendee Nicole as she took a sip of her coffee. My eyes bulged out as I processed what she had just said.  We were sitting at my kitchen table in our pajamas talking about when during times in life we feel our daily existence involves an […]

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  The road has become a great teacher of mine.  My road tripping over the past two years has brought me many profound lessons.  These lessons come in many forms. They may be personal epiphanies that come from being lost in meditative thought during hours of driving through the countryside. They may come from meeting […]

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I’m sitting in my hotel room in Springfield, Missouri, finally finding time to write after some marathon days of driving.  I love the road.  I do some of my best thinking during long hours of driving in Princess Leia the Prius with Yoda the dog.  What’s been on my mind the past few days is […]

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