You learn so much from other people on Twitter chats and often times sharing your “crazy” you find a kindred soul (or ten). The topic on the Sunday Brunch Travel Chat (#sbtc) this week was “Travel Rituals” which made for a lively conversation and the realization that we are all just a […]
Pulling into my driveway last night, the lights didn’t welcome me as they should. I already had a bad feeling about this only to be confirmed when I saw a downed wire in my front yard and tangled in a tree. Which wire was the issue – electric, phone or […]
Update to this Post – It wasn’t quite the year I thought it would be which is why you can have many New Year’s Wishes, Dreams and Resolutions but real life smacks you in the face with reality and in my case blows your life up! It would become an […]
Two years ago, I had such an amazing, unbelievable travel year that I finally resolved to start a blog and share my travels, tips and photos. Last year, I shared the ups and downs of that first year in A Year of Chocolate, Cities and Challenges. This year for my […]
All of the weather apps, no matter how much I wished it otherwise, showed rain and clouds for my four day weekend in Reykjavik so I resigned myself that I probably wasn’t going to see the Northern Lights in Iceland on this trip. The Aurora forecast for Iceland was showing […]
The airport ATM accepted my card, password and request for cash but then spit out the paper saying it couldn’t give me cash! I initially thought at 6:30 a.m. maybe the machine was empty so I tried the other machine, same result – no cash. Not worrying too much, I […]
This holiday season you may be making your list and checking it twice and chances are you are buying a gift card or two or ten for friends and family. Me? I’m planning on buying lots of restaurant gifts cards for ME! The holiday season is a great time to […]
Having debuted in the cartoon, “Steamboat Willie” in 1928, Mickey Mouse will turn 86 tomorrow (November 18th). How that one cartoon character has affected each of our lives is fascinating testament to the iconic, visionary, Walt Disney. If you ever ask who I’d like to meet dead or alive, Walt […]
So today, November 2nd is my partner in cookie crime, Cookie Monster’s birthday. While he remains ageless to children, he is actually a bit of an old man as Frank Oz started portraying Cookie Monster in 1969! Despite his voracious appetite for cookies, he still looks pretty healthy for a […]
As a child, my sister and I often visited my grandparents for the day. My mom would drop us off and give us each $1.00 which in the 70’s/early 80’s was a lot of money with strong purchasing power in the candy store world. We would plan our strategy before […]