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Milan: A Morning Meditation

To travel well requires a receptively blank mind. Quiet the inner chatter. Silence the inner critic and accept what comes my way. So with my husband away on business and the kids and I in Milan for a few days, I start my morning… Milan, 7am. At my kitchen window. “My” elderly couple across the […]

June 27, 2012
Jet Lag. Jet Bag.

Jet lag. When the local time says one thing and my body says another. Arriving in Milan in a fog we find a taxi big enough to fit us and our bags. A miracle, really, since we had been under the impression we could each take two checked pieces of luggage we have a herd […]

June 19, 2012
Top Ten Ways I Know I’m Going on a Long Trip…

…my anxiety level is in charge of me instead of the other way around and I realize one way to deal with it is through humour. All notion of serving “food groups” (you know, fruits and veggies, grains, protein…) to my children goes out the window in favour of emptying the fridge and freezer. We’ve […]

June 9, 2012
What this is, what it’s not, and maybe why you might read it…

Or not. This blogging- is such a narcissistic enterprise. In researching (’cause that’s what I do) “how to blog”, I’ve read a few blogs. OMG…I guess I really don’t “get it”. But, I am going to figure this out as I go. So this is what I know so far: this blog is not going […]

June 4, 2012