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...Spring Effervescent "My Mom's Favorite Season"
I think of my mother in the spring. When the cool rain settles in, warmer than frigid icicle raindrops tap-tap-tapping on our windowpane...
6 days ago
...Frenetic "Stop, Drop, and Breathe"
As 2024 draws to a close, I am, first, supremely surprised at how fast this year flew. Like a racecar! Or better yet, that miraculous...
Dec 21, 2024
...Argentina Pink "Where Borges Wrote of a Labyrinth"
Twenty years have passed. August 2004. Since I descended into that magical world of fog and rain. Not at all what I imagined my first...
May 5, 2024
...Umbrella Blue "Home Sweet Home"
As Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz" (1939) once said, “There’s no place like home.” Cue those glittery red shoes. And for travelista...
Nov 12, 2023
...Green and Yellow "I Remember Brazil"
I remember my 5th floor terrace door started to rattle at 10pm. And it kept on. For seemingly the whole night. I lay nervously in bed,...
Jul 10, 2022
...Techno Nostalgic "Atmospheric Italy After 25 Years"
Thank you to InTravel Magazine for publishing my travel article "Atmospheric Italy After 25 Years," included in their March-April issue. ...
Mar 6, 2022
...Joyful "My 2021 Mash-Up"
What a year 2021 has been. Gratifying. Monumental. Where should I start? Perhaps it's best to commence by restating my evergreen love...
Dec 28, 2021
...Patriotic Red and Green "My 25th Mexico Anniversary"
Twenty-five years ago this summer, I made my first trip to Latin America. My excitement was brimming over as I boarded that jet at La...
Sep 4, 2021
...Baby Blue "My Argentina-Themed Bathroom?"
Never did I think I would write a post about my bathroom. Errr. What can I say. I moved last September, and since then the decorating...
Apr 5, 2021
...Brightly Sentimental "Adios to the Fiesta Room"
In a big crash, bam, boom – I have moved from my infamous “2-bedroom on the 10th floor,” which included my sweetly monikered guest...
Oct 19, 2020
...Lemony Yellow "My Toast to Italy"
It was November 1996. I was twenty years old and studying abroad in Madrid, Spain. With classes considerately on Thanksgiving hiatus...
Jul 26, 2020
A Tad Sad? "The Lonely Tulip"
We spotted you across the field. It was April – tulip month. We were in Holland – divine. Dry dusty earth surrounded you in a sea of...
Mar 29, 2020
...Beyond Grateful "When Did My New World Become My Old World?"
“Oh Caribbean Sea, I want to cup your warm sand in my hands, squeeze lime into my sugarcane juice. I want to hear indigenous drum beats,...
Mar 1, 2020
...Eclectic "My 2019 Mash-Up"
2019 was a great year – at least in my arts & culture universe, a world decidedly far flung from the rough ‘n tumble of modern politics,...
Dec 31, 2019
...Floral Purple "New York Botanical Garden"
The saying goes that New Yorkers LOVE nature more than the city itself. After visiting NYBG (New York Botanical Garden), I’d agree. ...
Jul 2, 2019
...Black New York "Where Old Hollywood Starlets Go to Die"
Yes, yes, no need to tell me. What a morbid post. Let alone in the blossoming pink month of April. What can I say, my lovelies. Even...
Apr 22, 2019
...Happy "A Smile from Guatemala"
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" It is with great pleasure that I unveil my first guest blogger. Ms. Barbara, my dear friend, has...
Apr 13, 2019
...Moroccan "I Found You in a Teeny-Tiny Store"
Delicately pacing, over a creaky wooden floor no more than 12x14, I debated buying you. Incense came up through the floorboards – wafted...
Feb 10, 2019
...Tongue-tied "Chilly Chile"
My latest travel article was published in InTravel Magazine's July/August issue. And below is my favorite photo from my first Chile trip....
Dec 8, 2018
...My Old World Spain "Madrid, and Toledo, and the Prado, Oh My!"
Running hurly-burly through busy, noisy, even construction-filled city streets isn’t new to me. Back in my day, this New York City gal...
Nov 12, 2018
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