I’ve never been a conventional mourner who cries appropriately at bad news or funerals. Tears never come conveniently, even when […]
Endless Santorini Sun
For years, picture perfect shots of Santorini flooded my Instagram feed and left me in awe. I’d scroll past images […]
Curious About Car Camping?
It’s safe to say 2020 has become a year we didn’t see coming. Stress-filled months cooped up with cranky kids […]
Tranquility in Kamakura, Japan
I am at a small French roadside cafe in Kamakura, a small seaside town outside of Tokyo. It is cozy […]
Dear Alabama
Dear Alabama, First off, I owe you an apology. All these years and I never looked your way– not even […]
Chiang Mai- A Beautiful Mess
For weeks now, I’ve been struggling to sum up my thoughts on Thailand. Photos, notes, and memories contradict one another, […]
Phuket’s Kata- A contradiction of beauty and chaos
After thirty-seven hours of travel, I arrive at a “luxury” budget airport hotel in Bangkok delirious from sleep deprivation. From […]
Wonderful Wine Country Weekdays
Only an hour and twenty from San Fran, Healdsburg, California is everything I dreamed it to be and the next […]
San Francisco Days
Last week for Spring break, I surprised my fifteen-year-old daughter with a trip to Northern California. As Jordan enters […]
Journey to Auschwitz
I am clutching the seatback handles on a bus speeding through winding roads in eastern Europe. The bus is more […]
Banning Mills Adventure Weekend
Deep in the hills of Georgia, tucked away between the charming towns of Carrollton and Newnan, a death-defying adventure awaits […]
Colorado’s Rocky Mountain High- Hiking the Rockies
To paraphrase John Denver, Come home to a place you’ve never been. That’s exactly what taking that first step on […]
10 Ways To Know You’re Officially a St. Augustinian
You Run Towards The Gunfire. A reenactment of some sort is always happening- Changing of the Guard, Drakes Raid, just […]
Airbnb- A More Adventurous Way to Stay
Spending hundreds of nights on the road, you quickly learn to adjust and even sometimes crave the anonymity that comes […]
36 Hours in Firenze (Florence)
Thanks to historical flooding in Germany, getting to Florence was a last minute decision and required an overnight train ride […]
Pompeii
Imagine going about your daily life in the busy city when a nearby volcano erupts forcing you to either attempt […]
To My Independent Eccentric Artist Mother on her 75th Birthday
August 8th 1939, three quarters of a century ago today to be exact, my mother Joanie came into this world. […]
Amsterdam’s not so Wild Side
Originally Published in Old City Life Magazine