I have only been to Italy once, and it was just a day trip. We were spending 2 weeks in Bavaria and there was an organized tour for the day to Vipiteno. We spent hours on the bus each direction to eat pasta and shop for leather before boarding the bus back. It was barely…
I had a brief meeting with a friend recently to drop something off and she asked if I could sit and chat for a bit. We communicate quite a bit electronically so I knew most of what was going on with her so this wasn’t one of those “tell me how you’re doing” moments. It…
I would not describe myself as “outdoorsy”. I have nothing against the outdoors, but I don’t seem to crave it like some others do. When I visualize a perfect day, it usually involves activities inside. I do think you can feel the need to breathe air that isn’t artificially made and I do from…
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ol’ days before you’ve actually left them.” I’m a pretty nostalgic person. I spend a lot of time looking back and wanting to return to certain times when life seemed better. It seemed better because there were family and friends there, and…
It’s a good day. I am sitting here on my couch, alternating between reading and binge watching back episodes of a TV show. My dog is lying beside me and sighs periodically. I interpret that to say that he is having a good day, too. The book I’m reading is about World War II.…
I am thankful to work in a field that has starts and stops. There are 3 starts I get in a year: the start of the calendar year, the start of the school year, and the start of summer. It’s that last one I’m in right now. I work year-round so the summer is part…
There’s a word that I have heard about a lot lately in different conversations: family. There may be some people that recoil when they hear that word if their experience with a family was painful. I am blessed to have a good family and, for me, that word means “love”. I am an…