Category TRAVELING BITS
The Bit About How It Takes a Villa
So I was blogging earlier about how I’d lived in LA for more than 30 years before I got around to touring the iconic La Brea Tar Pits. Well, it’s been the same deal with another historic SoCal attraction – the Getty Villa! I don’t mean the Getty Center complex running along the top of […]
The “Just” Courthouses Bit
Whoa…how can it possibly be so close to the end of summer?! Feels like I only just got back from a terrific May trip to NoCal to visit family! And ya know, on top of being just plain fun to hang with, my kin always find really fun activities to share when their nerdy auntie […]
The Springs Eternal Bit
“Mineral or tap?” It’s a common restaurant water query. Or how about – “Sparkling or still?” I’ve heard that variation, especially while traveling in England. And over in Italy, I learned to respond with “Acqua naturale” – because I prefer my personality to be more bubbly than my H2O! Until I took a few overseas […]
Gettysburg: The Point of Entry Bit (Part 2)
Greetings! Or perhaps a smart salute! Although it feels like I’m double-time marching toward summer, I wasn’t quite ready after last month’s post to leave behind the rolling, frozen-in-Civil-War-time hills of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I didn’t get around to listing a few more of the ways a person can enter into the experience of this country-defining […]
Gettysburg: The Point of Entry Bit (Part 1)
Spring-y greetings! So on a recent, quick and altogether fantastic visit to Manhattan, my travel companions picked this restaurant called Keens Steakhouse for one of our nights out. Not knowing anything about it (and having high cholesterol…), I can’t say I was especially “keen” to go – But the dinner turned out to be a […]
The “Gilding the Golden State” Bit
Man, I’m so glad I got to take a trip back East last summer! I mean, beyond being all kinds of fun, it cleared up some questions I’d had about that side of the country! Like after inhaling a Connecticut lobster roll, I now know what the fuss over those butter-laden bad boys is all […]
The Riverside Story Bit
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story…” So begins Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. It also begins my own journey through those New Year’s Resolutions I nattered about last month – including to ramp up my reading! The Odyssey seems a fine start. It’s UC Berkeley’s online book club offering ahead of the […]
It’s That “Poem Before Christmas” Bit
Seasons Greetings! Can’t believe it’s time again to close out the year with my traditional haphazard poem! It’s an account of as many events as I can fit in (and with all their feels…), meant to be read in the style of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. So, no more prose – here it goes! […]
The Bathing Beauty Bit
Okay so sort of by accident, I’ve been learning more about “mindfulness” lately! (Although with a World Series Game starting shortly, it’s hard to be entirely “in the moment” just now…) While I can sure use the education, it’s been coming in forms I definitely didn’t expect! I mean, bathing-wise, I’ve always been a practitioner […]
The “Out of Situ” Bit
Happy Official Autumn! So every time I aim to close out the year strongly by focussing on professional matters, my thoughts drift off to the lazy days of summer (the active ones, too!) when I got to indulge in some of my very favorite pastimes… For one, I fed my love of history! I got […]
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