....have come to an end. I can hardly believe that 3 months have sped past so quickly. I arrived in my little fishing village of Ferragudo on the 22nd of January. As a US passport holder, you are only allowed to stay in the Schengen area of Europe for 90 days. They are very strict …
I returned from my wonderful trip to Japan and once again became the 'house mom' at Gamma Phi Beta sorority on the campus of UC-Berkeley. For the next 9 months, this was my full-time, 24/7 job. I experienced the graduation of my seniors, the moving-out of the entire house (what a mess!), a summer filled …
TOKYO I apologize for the delay in getting this last Japan blog post written, but I have been fighting a case of acute bronchitis plus hosting 2 different house guests during the past month. Mia Culpa! Our last stop - and we saved the biggest for last! I had read so many books, and read …
We have all returned to Kyoto, to the lovely Hotel Kuu for 5 days of exploring. Things had been rather tense among the 4 of us since Hiroshima, so I let Phyllis know that I would prefer spending time in Kyoto on my own, going to places I had on my list of things to …
After meeting up with my sewing buddy, Phyllis, her husband, and their friend in Osaka, it was time to take the train, a tram/train, and the ferry to get to Naoshioma, the art island I had chosen as my input into our itinerary. In case you didn't know, for almost 30 years I owned the …
Last March, 2024, I finally traveled to one of the places that had been on my bucket list for years and years - The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan. For years I dreamed of visiting this country, having fallen in love with it from reading books like Tai Pan, Memories of a Ghesia, …
I spent the past year as a House Director/Mom at a large sorority house on the campus of UC Berkeley (better known as Cal) where I oversaw the daily lives of a group of 19 to 22-year-old young women, managed a staff of cleaners, maintenance people, cooks, and kept a huge old house built in …
Welcome to the University of California - Berkeley. The most liberal, outspoken, and one of the most difficult-to-get-into universities in the United States. In the above photo of this beautiful campus, you can see the nearby San Francisco Bay with the fog just obscuring the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. But on a sunny, …
What do you do when you come to the realization that you aren't where you belong?  I relocated to a nice, affordable, independent senior living facility in Santa Barbara (Goleta), CA last April after being on their waiting list for 8 months. To do this, I gave up my home in San Miguel de Allende, did …
Moving is NO FUN!. And finding that you only have the choice of one mover in the city where you live, who really didn't do a good job for you once before, can be a dicey choice. But what is a girl to do? You go with who you have and pray! Zoom-a-lo managed to …
My Home on the Roam 