Oct 31, 2024
September rolled forward in Napoli, the tension and excitement growing for my birthday in even greater increments than a normal year. This year, my friends Ali and Shane arrived in Rome and had a few days of seeing that amazing city before coming to Napoli. I was...
Jun 14, 2023
Or, What’s not to love about this suburban corner of Missouri? I feel stuck here. As if I didn’t choose to be here to take care of my father, as if I don’t choose it again day after day. But there’s a noisy part of me that questions that choice...
Apr 12, 2023
My last post recapped Dad’s rough first month in Assisted Living. All kinds of ups, downs and sideways lurches since then leave me reporting… about the same. And I’m whiny and exhausted myself. My sister and brother are back in Alaska for a break,...
Dec 12, 2022
I’m running a bit.. behind in my blog posting. Like three months behind! I meant to post this back in September, to follow up with more Fascinating French-landia for all you Franco-Philes out there! But best intentions yada yada yada… Anyway, anticipation...
Sep 15, 2022
From my earliest days, “France” has meant “Paris.” I blame Richard Scarry. Remember his books when we were kids? Busy colorful pages of rabbits, elephants, cats and bears doing all the things we do, going all the places we go, teaching words in...
Jul 25, 2022
This post picks up where the last one left off – in the mountains just before the desert, in Matmata. We’d had a great recommendation of a little place to stay, consisting of actual troglodyte caves, lovingly maintained as you can see below: I found an...
