Guilt

“Should I go to the first day of the conference or see my daughter?” I asked my group of fellow family travel writers during a Zoom meeting ahead of our work conference.The conference would be held in New York City, where my 20-year-old daughter lives and goes to college.My original…

I grew up on the shores of Lake Erie, in a town just south of Buffalo, New York. Ice was something we chiseled off a car in winter, not something that’s dropped into a drink. For me, life on a tropical island was a pipe dream.In high school, I was…