One of my favorite sayings is “You don’t have to tell ME three times.” This is because often it takes more than one error for things to resonate with me. Usu...

Following a wonderful month in Italy, I'm enjoying reminiscing. Here are a few special memories of the madonnelle, people, dogs, and gelato of Venice. I ca...

You want it to last forever. Yes I missed home, and my dog, but I spent my entire vacation writing, eating, drinking, meeting interesting people, and experi...

I recently returned from a four-week vacation and writer's retreat in Italy. While I was away, one of my dogs fell deathly ill AND the boarding facility had...

When with people from other places, I quickly notice how we say very common things in different ways. For two glorious weeks, at a wonderful writer’s retrea...

My travel experiences have been varied and broad but never included Las Vegas. That has been on purpose. After all, my biased opinion of Vegas was not good...