Wednesday Missives

Superbowl perspective

The Superbowl is over for another year. People are happy or sad about the outcome, based on their life-long affinity for one team or another, or sometimes based more on whim. If someone won last year, that team is sort of automatically served up as the Goliath that...
The surprise of a foot massage

The surprise of a foot massage

The first days of the new administration have been even worse than we imagined. We’re in for a rough ride but we’re stronger!

Mexico City paradise

Mexico City paradise

The Culventure continues in Mexico City. A fantastic place full of wonders, history, and more tacos.

Wet Week on the Riviera Maya

Wet Week on the Riviera Maya

Cenotes, mangroves, and using your life jacket like a diaper. A family adventure to Tulum, Mexico goes wonderfully right.

Digging deeper in Italy

Digging deeper in Italy

This. Is. Matera. James Bond and the G7 sure know all about it, but this place was news to me. I’m still picking my jaw up from the floor.

Crossing the boot

Crossing the boot

Bopping around Basilicata region with two of my nearest and dearest, drinking wine and looking for doves. Can’t get better than that, can you?

Amalfi coasting

Amalfi coasting

Curiousing around the Amalfi Coast with Ramon and dearest friends. There is walking, and there is eating. And escaping the influencers.

Vesuvius, Pompeii, and Capri

Vesuvius, Pompeii, and Capri

Vesuvius, Pompeii and Capri – three wildly different perspectives from Campania, the region Napoli calls home.

Napoli all day

Napoli all day

Here we are in Napoli. We took this first day to establish a pattern of eating and walking until we drop that will last us our whole trip.

Run government like a business?

Run government like a business?

Some voters seem to think the Thin-Skinned Orange-Tinted Voldemort might run the country like a business. As if that’s a good thing.

Missing Miss Raya Buckets

Missing Miss Raya Buckets

Miss Raya Buckets stepped over the Rainbow Bridge earlier this year, where the can opener is always spinning. I sure miss her!