Greetings! Sharing a new word I picked up on a recent wine tasting holiday – “terroir”! Seems fair to pronounce it something like “tehr waar” – or to add a little phlegm to those r’s as you’re able. Terroir has to do with the environmental factors where a wine is produced that contribute to its […]
Man, life can be strange. A few days into the New Year, I was out picnicking and catching up with my niece in a green, sun-dappled Burbank park, when she mentioned the fire that just destroyed a historic home we’d visited in Northern California. Always out for blog ideas, it got me meditating about historic […]
Heyyyy – Happy 2025! So even as I dive into the New Year, I’m delighted to have m’ blog as an excuse to glance back at some pretty amazing events of 2024! Like over the summer, I got to have a terrific combination of travel experiences – heading back to a gloriously familiar city and […]
Greetings and felicitations! Yup! It’s that one time of year when I traditionally wrap things up by subjecting kind readers to my efforts at poetry! Here’s my 2024 in a nutshell, offered in the form of (or something lazily close to) the poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, submitted with all good holiday wishes – […]
I know, I know. I yammer about this every year pretty much like clockwork. It’s just that in LA, there’s not much of a weatherly transition from season to season, and I’m always most aware of this – and most disappointed, somehow – when so very little here screams that it’s “fall”. Yet what always […]
So does this happen to you too? Are there close by places – not necessarily bucket list-y ones, just cool sounding ones – that you mean to visit but you never seem to get to? I lived in LA for more than 25 years before getting out to nearby Joshua Tree National Park. At least […]
End-of-summer greetings! As I dig in for the LA version of fall (it’s currently in the 90’s here…), I’m further warmed by memories of my summertime travels! My last post covered London since I was there for all of my recent visit to England – all except for a short side trip to the nearby […]
Hiya! Just back from some wonderful international travels! The first leg of my trip was to what still holds the title of my favorite city in the world: London! As if even scratching the surface of all there is to do and see here weren’t a big enough job, I decided on this trip to […]
Summer greetings! It’s that fantastic time of year when many get to take off by plane, train and automobile to create lasting vacation memories! I’ve got a trove of family photos that bring some very fond trip-type memories to mind – But they generate some mysteries too! A few years back, I wrote about trying […]
Yayyy! Almost time for my favorite biennial event – the Olympics! This year is the Summer installment, and I’m all the more excited because its stage is a magical city I’ve been fortunate to visit – Paris! Almost 40 years ago (back when I was an innocent broad…), Paris was the first big Continental stop […]
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