Darwin's an impressionable, charming, and very bright young guy in his 20s, originally from Mauritius, living in Catania. We met him last year at the villa, as he is the son of the villa's caretakers and he helps his parents with their workload at the villa. Those of you reading [...]
Thinking about my mom and dad today. April 25th was the date of their wedding anniversary. They always celebrated their anniversary. They bought gifts for each other and often went out for dinner while my sisters babysat me. Being the youngest in the family, the caboose, I always felt that [...]
Yes, our yoga and hiking retreat in sun-kissed Sicily will be taking place very soon. I am excited about this yoga retreat coming up and wanted to include some of the trip's highlights! Temperatures look to be in the 70s for the week ahead. Many of my readers know that [...]
It was a stormy blustery weekend at the coast, tempestuous, complete with sideways ice-cold rain and hailstones. Rick’s impromptu spoonerism created a great new word, a noun, an appropriate description of what was falling from the sky: “hice”, a mixture of hail and ice. And the new word stuck just [...]
The mantra So Hum inspires me to look around, to see my reflection in all that is. It means "I am that". "That" refers to all of creation. We had a rare snowfall in Seattle yesterday. I woke up to a few inches of snow. Green Lake looked so pretty [...]
