by Carol Flake | Dec 19, 2023
What happens when the small-scale dramas in your personal life become entwined like flotsam in the large-scale currents of local and national events swirling around you? I’ve decided to call 2021 my year of living precariously, when my own troubles were played out...
by Carol Flake | Nov 14, 2023
Editor’s Note: Author Carol Flake is a frequent traveler with NextTribe (though we did not conduct this Mongolia trip). Still, in this piece she demonstrates what characterizes so many of the women who take our trips–an openness to new challenges (though...
by Carol Flake | Feb 28, 2023
The first time I landed in Guatemala after my husband’s death, I didn’t get very far. Twelve years ago, I collapsed in Aurora, Guatemala City’s airport, unable to move. I was changing planes, on my way to a healing center in Costa Rica, where I hoped to further my...
by Carol Flake | Jan 12, 2023
Thailand’s temples are among the most dazzling in the world, with their pearly white stupas and shimmering gold chaityas. But a few years ago I was up in northern Thailand in a low-slung Burmese-style wooden temple, thinking that it was far less dramatic than others I...
by Carol Flake | Sep 14, 2021
Excerpted from Carol Flake Chapman’s book, Wild Surprises: Stories and Poems About Encounters That Shifted My World. *** Six months after my husband died in Guatemala, I saw an ad for a “healing center” in Costa Rica called Asclepios, named for the god of...
