The Cost of a Smile

My friend Giorgio Modica of Modica, Sicily, passed away on January 24. On his death notice, his family wrote Fu Angelo. Translation: He was an angel.  In his youth, Giorgio immigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he lived for many years. He loved Canada, but he yearned to live out his [...]

2026-02-21T17:32:15-08:00February 21st, 2026|Culture, friends, Health, Photography, Travel, Yoga Adventure|

2023 Retrospective Perspective

I bring to you a blog post capturing my year in photos. It was a good year, overall, with some bumps along the road, especially this last month of December, when I had to close my yoga studio for one month due to flooding and the damage it caused. [...]

2023-12-27T19:38:37-08:00December 27th, 2023|friends, nature, Photography, retreat, Travel, Yoga, Yoga Adventure|

Yoga & Culture in Greece, Group One Slideshow

Group One has already left Greece. I took a few days to rest fully and in less than an hour I will meet up with my second group and begin the second retreat here in Greece. I am, somehow, managing to film short yoga sessions for the yogis back home, [...]

26 Photos from the Land of Fire and Ice

Hello. It's been a long time!  The last time I wrote a blog post was Spring 2023 and that post was about Cherry Blossoms. What happened to summer? What happened to Fran's writing? Some people have asked me if I've taken them off my mailing list. I would never [...]

2023-09-12T02:55:10-07:00September 12th, 2023|Hot Springs, Iceland, nature, Photography, retreat, Yoga, Yoga Adventure, Yoga Retreat|

Otherworldly Iceland!

Research shows that the average attention span (in humans) is 8.25 seconds!  That is shorter than the attention span of a goldfish (a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds). Can this be true? If it is true, you, my audience, will miss out on much of the [...]

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