Author Archives: Amy Parmeter
THE ZEN AT THE ATM BIT
There are some life lessons in which I always seem to need a refresher course. Yup – “Amy 2.0” often requires upgrading. And while some improvements have been conveniently downloaded at home, other bugs have required fixes on the road. Like the time an ATM machine mercilessly ate my one resource for funds right at the beginning of a […]
THE CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS BIT
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas… So I just realized that the side topic of snow kind of “drifted” into each of my last two posts (about Vancouver and the fall). Yeah, ’tis the season (ask Buffalo…), but I think it’s become a thing with me. As a lifelong coastal Californian, I wonder if I’ve ended up with a complex […]
THE “GUIDE” TO VANCOUVER BIT
Presiding over Vancouver’s English Bay is a grand piece of artwork depicting what Inuits call an “inukshuk.” People (plus the odd seagull) have employed inukshuks as markers to guide them to needful things like travel routes, food supplies and places of reverence. This one happens to signify all those things for me – marking Vancouver as a special destination […]
THE BIT ABOUT NEXT SEASON
As a lifelong California coastal resident, it’s not always easy to get a proper feel for the fall. Sure, some leaves change and drop off here in LA (honestly, I don’t know how SoCal plants figure out what to do and when), but the tall and skinny palm trees in front of my apartment pretty much stay tall and skinny throughout the year. It […]
THE LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION BIT (PART 2)
My last post covered trips to locations where two of my favorite TV shows were shot. This time, I’m going to the movies! And where I had planned to hit the towns of Roslyn and Portmeirion because of their “industry” connections, finding both history and Hollywood in Salzburg, Austria and Arrow Rock, Missouri was a pleasant surprise – and […]
THE LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION BIT (PART 1)
Okay, FYI? My apartment is pretty near this hill – and right on the other side of it (by the media tower) is the famous Hollywood sign! So it’s kind of fair to say I moved to LA over 20 years ago to seek my Tinseltown fortune and have ended up living just on the backside of the dream… I hope […]
THE RED LINE THROUGH TIME BIT
I always look forward to the 4th of July! And what’s my favorite way to honor our breaking away from England to try something completely new? It’s to keep up tried and true traditions like eating too much picnic food, listening to marches by John Philip Sousa, “ooh”-ing and “ahh”-ing over fireworks – and watching the movie 1776. This […]
THE THRICE IN A LIFETIME BIT
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And when it comes with a view like this one, I have to agree! My parents and I stumbled onto it the morning after arriving in Athens, Greece, and checking into the fancy Hotel Grande Bretagne on Syntagma Square. As we jet-laggily followed signs to a restaurant on the […]
THE “WE” IN “TEAM” BIT
I just love what you learn from traveling! Like I had a fantastic time in Boston last October doing all kinds of terrific touristy things. But the big surprise? Despite all my U.S. history knowledge, it took going to this storied city to learn that George Washington – the father of our country – was a serious Red Sox […]
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO A FOUR-YEAR-OLD BIT
It was a date that lived in infamy for me – the day I wasn’t allowed to visit Pearl Harbor because I was only four… I’ve since recognized the importance of keeping it peaceful at such hallowed places (at four, I might not have been relied on to do that). In any case, I think the rules there have changed since my rather distant […]
TESSEROLOGY 