...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,...
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- Mar 6, 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. ...
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- Dec 28, 2021
...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...
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- Sep 4, 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...
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- Apr 5, 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...
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- Oct 19, 2020
...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...
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- Jul 26, 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...
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- Mar 29, 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...
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- Mar 1, 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,...
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- Dec 31, 2019
...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,...
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- Jul 2, 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. ...
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- Apr 22, 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...
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- Apr 13, 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...
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- Feb 10, 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...
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- Dec 8, 2018
...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....
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- Nov 12, 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...
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- Aug 19, 2018
...Sunny "I Glimpsed My Heart in Panama"
The dwarf palm tree was my friend that day. Its swaths of healthy green opened in a gorgeous five-foot-tall flourish – like a wondrous,...
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- Aug 4, 2018
...Happy! "'Goin' Rogue in Spain' Wins Fan Favorite"
Thank you to everyone who voted!!! My article called "Goin' Rogue in Spain" was voted "Fan Favorite" for the May-June issue of InTravel...
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- Apr 23, 2018
...Alpine White "My Surprising Swiss Miss Adventure"
My first magical brush with the magical nation of Switzerland was surprisingly through Uruguay. It was early 2007. I flew from my New...
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- Jan 15, 2018
...Big City Girl (excerpt 3 from "this is not a memoir")
I am "starting" this new year by "finishing" with my third installment from my newly completed book called "this is not a memoir." I am...
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