“Oh no!” my friend’s email cyber-wailed. “I forgot your birthday…” Actually, she had not. She had remembered right on time. I spent seven glorious days on a Spanish island with two of my favorite people in the world: my best friend and my husband (my […]
Yesterday was the pinnacle. We traversed the Greater Munich area, enjoying the scenery and commenting on how beautiful Germany is. But last evening, soaking our sore hams in the bleeding sunlight, we agreed we would make today a ‘transition day’, a day in which we […]
We just returned from an all-day outing to Starnberg Lake in the south of Munich. Yesterday evening we tried to plan it, but somehow our minds were fogged after another day of sight-seeing and entertaining. I decided to leave it up to the power of […]
I make a lousy tourist. For one thing I’d prefer to talk to the countrymen of the place I’m visiting than my fellow tourists with cameras strapped around their necks. My dad and his wife are visiting, and I’m finding I’m a much better tour […]
In a special Work-Life Balance section, CNN reported yesterday about vacation time in the United States. Are you fearful to take time off because you think you might get axed? Think again. It has been proven that rested workers are more productive than those who […]
My dad and his wife arrived yesterday for their first visit in fifteen years. Despite my prayers to the weather gods, it has been murky and damp. In fact, the roof-pelting rain woke us up at midnight. Weather is a marvelously instructive device for realizing […]
The weather smacks of summer, the breezy timelessness of youth strengthened by the sun’s pure will to warm the Earth. Despite the external circumstances, I’ve been breathless since 8 am. It started when I used my mind as a calendar instead of that actual daytimer I […]
I recently talked about slow relationships, the kind in which you take a moment to ask how the other is, to let them know you are thinking of them, just because. I got two great messages today, and I just had to share because love is one […]
I am no technophobe. In fact, I celebrate the revolutionary tool called the Internet. It has improved my quality of life in many ways, allowing me to pursue my life’s dream of writing and connecting with people all over the world from the comfort of […]
Slow marriage doesn’t mean it takes you three weeks to pick up your dirty socks from the bathroom floor. It means taking time to be together, even when finances are tight. My husband and I haven’t been on a date in a while. My gym […]