Please do no let my dreamy church-bells-chiming-in-the-courtyards fool you.  Italy is not all rainbows and pasta and naked statues (though, WOW, there are a lot of those!)   For all of my life, I have struggled with homesickness.  Even getting me out the door to go to school was […]

    Well, Day Five was a little powerhouse of a day.  It actually started the night before, with an important No.   My kids and I had been planning on going to Rome.  I’ve been to Rome and I loved it, but the more I thought about going a […]

  I interrupt posting about this epic adventure to thank you, my friends, SO MUCH for being so kind and encouraging. Thank you for cheering. Thank you for reading. Thank you for loving us with such big, expansive love.  I adore travel and will always want to see and appreciate […]

Welcome to the Day Three not-recap.  I might post an actual recap later, but here’s the thing: It was sort of a mixed bag of tricks.  Lest you think Italy is all glory and no grit, I assure you in advance that Day Three was sort of a toughie for […]

  When last we talked,  my scrappy band of weary travelers had just emerged from the cocoon of a weird little hotel in Schiphol Airport and were ready to take on the last leg of the journey.  So, the story of Day Two actually begins with our evening flight into […]