Rusty Christmas Tree

On my way home from treating myself to a Gelson’s shopping experience (yes, they are expensive, but they do have a fresh produce book in the the midst of my favorite apples and pears titled “Melissa’s Produce Book” … I am so meant to shop there.)
Anywho, as I drove by Jedlicka’s I couldn’t help but [...]

Beautiful quote & oh so true about Italy

Nobody with a dream should come to Italy.
No matter how dead and buried the dream is thought to be,
in Italy it will rise and walk again.
(Elizabeth Spencer, The Light in the Piazza, 1960)

Wildflowers in honor of an innocent squirrel

I went to Figueroa Mountain in Los Padres Forest above Los Olivos yesterday for a little solitude (spa health people!). The hike was great, but I think biking would be better. The wildflowers are at their peak and I thought you would like to see a few good pics — looking at the photos makes [...]

Indulging in a Road Trip

  
This past weekend I took a Road Trip to Carmel by the Sea, a misty little town hidden near the cliffs over-looking the ocean and hiding in thick pine trees.  I ventured up North to see my best friend Kim (Kimbolina from Boulder), who lives in Madison Wisconsin now, but visits her dad who lives [...]

A Courteous Dog in Italy

A Short Story about a Dog and a Dirt Road
*In August 2007, I ventured to Siena Italy again for a weeklong visit.  A week after I returned from Italy, I traveled to Colorado to visit my best friend who was recovering from a double mastectomy.  This is of course a true story, written shortly after [...]

On Shakey Ground

Written November 2007
Here I sit on a Saturday night … and why do I feel the need to email my friends and tell them that I think the earthquake that happened about an hour ago is so hilarious? (yes, I know I need to get out more)
Well, here’s why …
I was typing on my computer [...]

I had the most amazing dream

Written August 2007
Last night I had a dream I was in Tuscany; it was one of those dreams that feel so real, so tangible. All of the friends and characters of my time in Italy before appeared in my dream and with them, they brought new people and things.In my dream, I saw fields of [...]

Where the Buffalo Roam

Written July 2007

Howdy friends,
I am in Wyoming now and finding the scenery (deer and buffalo everywhere), wind, smell in the air … refreshing. The wide open space and countryside is really beautiful and I like singing along to a good country that I know on the radio. It’s funny to go from Italy to here [...]

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