Cassie Stockamp

I came home from a year of volunteering and exploring my way around the world and quickly realized I hadn’t given my own country the same...

I had invited him over for coffee the other day as he has completed several epic bike rides including riding around Lake Michigan. A frie...

Living in the time of a pandemic, finding a job as an essential worker and creating space for a roommate with Parkinson’s I was in Colomb...

It was 91 degrees in Amed, Bali and I was sitting on the steps of an Indomaret mulling over the year while eating a roll of coffee flavor...

So this whole little goof began in Sri Lanka last March after making friends with two young delightful women from Berlin. When we gathere...

One rather gloomy winter day, I found myself slowly ambling around the halls of the Chicago Merchandise Mart peering into the showrooms t...

My daughter graduated from Indiana University in May, so I came home to Indianapolis to be with her and celebrate her accomplishments!! M...

“What are you packing” is a question I often get and I must admit to being a bit overwhelmed. But it was not from the clothing list, but ...

How….? When I tell people I am leaving for a year to volunteer around the world, their head often cocks to one side in that “I don’t unde...

Mom, so you want to go to Easter Island? Sure, someday. Mom, you want to go the Galapagos Islands? Yeh, the wildlife is supposed to incre...

Silence. I find it interesting to see what is drawing my attention as I’m reading this summer, and no, I’m not reading just in preparatio...

So I'm going to do it... I’m leaving my job at the Athenaeum and a few people are asking why I am leaving such a cool job? I must admit t...