I was checking airfares online when Alexander came up to me and asked what I was doing. I told him about my plans for May, that I am looking at going to Italy for a couple of days. Since my husband lost his job last year and now is back in school...

… but some sort of plans are starting to take shape, almost on their own. I am beginning to feel that if (when) I go to Italy in May, I want to visit Florence. The main reason for the trip is the Expats in Italy Monster GTG 2010, but that’s only one...

Why oh why did I not get a driver’s license earlier? They say that better late than never, but in this case even six weeks earlier would have made a difference. Life is so much easier when you can drive. Everything is so much easier. And, had I gotten...

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured hat greater age...

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world …. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and...