Cork, Ireland, Other Places, Travel: My stories
How to Kiss the Blarney Stone
It is a curious practice we have of kissing a 330 million-year-old dirty limestone. Legend has it that those who kiss the Blarney Stone are given the “gift of gab.” ...
Callicoon, NY, Travel: My stories, United States travel, Video Guides
Vlog: Country Mountain Getaway in Callicoon, NY
This particular vlog set in the Catskills is near and dear to my heart: it documents a special weekend trip to a family mountain home in the Catskills that has ...
Northampton, MA, Travel: My stories, United States travel, Video Guides
Experiments in Vlogging: Northampton, Massachusetts
I’ve jumped into the world of education travel coordination with CISabroad, and coordinating faculty-led university student tours of Italy takes every last bit of energy out of me and leaves ...
Travel Opinion, Travel: My stories
Traveling the Earth and Loving it.
my travels give me a simple love for the world, which I am celebrating today on Earth Day along with many of my fellow bloggers. The diversity and scope ...
Italy Travel, Travel: My stories
Saint Faustino’s Day: Celebrating Singledom the Italian Way
After spending most of the last five years of my life in Bologna, Italy, the day after Valentine’s Day will never be the same. With the same pioneering, rule-breaking ...
Italy Travel, Lecce, Puglia, Travel Opinion, Travel: My stories
An Italian Wedding in Lecce, Puglia
It was 11pm and I was standing alone outside the Lecce train station with two suitcases, two bags, no ride, no money, and Lecce’s Wikitravel entry loaded on my iPhone ...
Italy Travel, Kufstein, Austria, Other Places, Travel Opinion, Travel: My stories
One of the most beautiful train rides there is
I’m on a train bound for Kufstein, Austria. I’ve made the trip once before, in the winter, and it was a magical winter wonderland. Now it is an Eden of ...
Anniversaries
It snuck up on me…exactly one year ago today I left Bologna to return to family, friends, and career in the US. It hasn’t been an easy year, but ...
The dawning of a new adventure
As I start out on this new adventure to Italy and beyond for the summer, I can’t help thinking it is going to be a good one. But really, I’ve ...
Italy Travel, Siena, Travel Opinion, Travel: My stories
Suspended in time in Siena, Italy
Just as Siena is stuck in time, I wish I could have gotten stuck in time in Siena. Like in Groundhog Day, I want to be living that weekend over ...
Cesenatico, Italy Travel, Travel: My stories
Celebrating the Italian Summer at the Seaside in Cesenatico
Italians find themselves at the sea nearly every summer weekend, whether they smartly rent or own a whole beach house, or just a few feet of sand under an umbrella. ...
Other Places, Travel Opinion, Travel: My stories
My Life as an Agatha Christie Novel
These contrasting black and white words in front of you were written and rewritten a million times in those unpredictable moments of reflection that inevitably sneak up on me while ...