My birthday dawned bright and sunny… no, wait, it rained like the dickens. Far be it from me to criticize the weather, though – if it happens on My Day, it’s obviously the best weather ever! We had big plans for the day, starting with The Volcano:...
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...
Here’s a bit of received wisdom from the conservative side of the aisle, circa maybe 1985. These days, I keep hearing it from Undecideds and folks who explain away the Orange Menace’s garbage mouth: he’s a businessman, he’ll run the country...
It’ll never be easy to write a goodbye post to my sweet Raya kitty, but I think it’s time. Raya was The Best Kitty Ever. I told her so all the time. Other people probably think their cats are the best, and I sympathize with them, as they never had Raya....
Emotions shooting through the roof – I was heading back to Bogota. Or maybe I wasn’t. Prologue I arrived home from Mongolia after 30 hours of travel time, with about that long till my next flight. I slept, organized, and laundered, though it must be said...
For those of you (there must be thousands!) who read my first Mongolia post and only wanted more, here you have it! Bonus points if you thought to yourself, “Yes, Keri, natural beauty abounds in Mongolia, but what about food and culture?” Food I was...
