The month of August brought us to Italy for the very first time. Even though we first moved to Europe in 2008, our travel has been mostly restricted to Northern Ireland, Spain and Germany for work. Not that I'm complaining...
Read moreA Grecian Spiritual Retreat
I've owed this post to you for a long time. Way back in November - like, in the BT days (Before Trump) - I travelled to Athens, Greece with about two dozen other North American women who live and work in Europe. This is the second such spiritual retreat I've been on, where you awake to...
Read moreIn Germany
In Germany, the rooster crows a whole lot more than three times. He's been going all morning, since the sun first shimmied through our curtain and I laid curled up on our son's makeshift bed (he was in mine, obviously). We sleep with our balcony door all the way open...
Read moreThe view from down here, en Français
I was in my preteens maybe, post middle school crushes but pre high school angst. My best friend-psuedo-big-sister-babysitter-slash-confidante was back from a whirl around England and we settled her homesickness with a film. A Room With a View. Period piece and...
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