I’ve canceled the last trip on my itinerary:  Morocco.  After my husband’s bout with Mumps, and after reading the comments informing me that, yes, Mumps is back, I started to research.  It turns out if you do get Mumps, it can gestate for 15-18 days before you show any symptoms.  During this period and for [...]

I used to have manager in my title.  It was followed by “at XYZ corporation”.  I won’t say where, but you’ve heard of it.  It was impressive enough that at parties I didn’t have to explain further.  When someone asks you what you do for a living, they’re giving you a little test.  “Are you [...]

Venice in August is a theme park.  You bus in from the airport.  It drops you at the Palazzo Roma, where every other bus unloads hundreds of tourists per hour.  You wait in line.  You pay too much for a ticket.  You get on the first ride, a ferry that takes you down the grand [...]

If you’ve ever been in my bathroom in my former home in Texas, you’d know that I had a certain framed poster hanging on the wall.  I bought it one night from the Michael’s Art Supply store in Plano Texas.  I didn’t know what it meant, but I thought it was cute, plus it matched [...]

Under the forest canopy the filtered light looks pale green on the path leading to the Castel de Mouro.  As I hiked towards the Moorish ruins, the crowd thinned as they headed to the bus terminal or shops or back into town.  I soon found myself alone, in the hushed silence of the overgrown forest, [...]