Thank you, Texas, for the absolutely perfect day last weekend! The temperature was in the 80s with sunny, clear skies and even a little bit of a breeze. If you weren’t at the State Fair‘s final weekend, then it was the best day to be at Reverchon Park for the…
I love National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I’ve participated – and finished – several times over the years, and each year as November is on the horizon, I am always wondering if I’ll do it again. And while I haven’t participated every year since that first time, I am planning…
I flew into a small airport just outside of Gdansk, met a very nice cab driver (who thought I was Norwegian) who took a route that circuited the city center, so I have to say didn’t quite happen at first sight. But I was incredibly excited about being in Poland.…
With roughly two days, my time in Munich was limited. I did explore my first day, though without much of a set plan. It wasn’t until my second day that I had sites in my mind that I wanted to see. Some of those came after my explorations – places…
One of the many, many things I love about Europe are the palaces. Beautiful, ornate, sprawling buildings that contain or allude to the other things that I love: art, history, romance and a little bit of intrigue. Or in some instances, quite a bit of intrigue (Hall of Mirrors and…
“There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.” – David Guterson My grandmother’s house was that kind of house that books are written about. I don’t mean because of its stately elegance or how it was situated on the side of a river or facing the beach…