My husband and I just returned from a trip to Tahiti, an island about halfway between Australia and South America. It was a fundraising trip for Southern Virginia University, where my husband is a professor. We’re all in on supporting SVU – so we sailed out on a marvelous eight-day cruise, joined by the amazing President Bonnie Cordon and a truly splendid group of people.

Out on the water, I made a conscious choice to record all the good things about this trip. I wrote them down. It’s som...