Just one week ago, we were waking up to salty ocean air and tropical breezes, coconut trees and hibiscus. Even more magical, we shared the views with our children, my parents, and my brother and his wife. Fortunate, an understatement. Come along while I recap our trip to the Aloha state, Hawaii. Harper and Jameson […]
Category: Travel
In lightning-round life lately: What we are eating: leftovers (pasta, birthday cake, odds n’ ends from the fridge) – the true fruits of summer have not yet arrived, but I am eagerly awaiting juicier berries and sweet corn What I am watching: Shrinking on Apple TV – the story of a widowed psychiatrist (Jason Segal), […]
My sweet mama turned 70 this year. She decided to celebrate it BIG, and I think it’s terrific. Yesterday, she left for Spain to walk the last 70 miles of the Camino de Santiago. I mean … how neat is THAT? After a day of travel, via New York and Madrid, she arrived in the […]
Mom and I woke up to our last day in Paris with a sigh. It had gone too quickly, of course, but this we knew before we embarked. We planned to spend this last bit with leisure, strolling and shopping along the Left Bank. The morning brought sunshine with simultaneous sprinkles of rain. Umbrellas popped […]
I made sure to turn off my alarm clock on this day, feeling sure I would still wake early as usual. But, oops, jet lag caught us! We were both dreamily asleep come 8:30 a.m., which was une situation d’urgence – an emergency! Why? Because we had to get to our culinary tour at 9:30. […]
Rrrrrriiinnnnngggggg … the alarm! … still programmed to 5:00 a.m. as per usual Monday mornings … how did I forget to turn that off? Rule number one of vacations, and I blew it. And yet, it only took me thirty seconds to remember that I wasn’t waking up to go to work. I was waking […]
This year, my mother turned 70 and I turned 40. In the spirit of celebrating one another and enjoying this short life, we took a trip to Paris together. We chose December, in part, because it is my birthday month, but also because neither of us had visited in the winter before. So, why not […]
Last week, Jason and I celebrated our fifteenth anniversary. To honor the occasion, we stole away to NYC for a quick couple of days. This marked Jason’s first time to the Big Apple, and I hadn’t been in twenty years. We had two days to make the most of this giant of a city, and […]
Jason was born and raised a Cornhusker – brought up in a close knit community with 10+ aunts and uncles and countless cousins and lived simply and happily, running back and forth between his house and the soccer field across the street. Though Jason and his parents have been Coloradans for some time now, you […]
I have been traveling to the tip of Wisconsin for more than thirty-five years. My brother and I would load up into the minivan, dad at the wheel and mom navigating, and leave our suburban Chicago house to head to the Door every other year or so of my childhood. Once you get past Sturgeon […]
