PARIS I talked my friend, Jan, while visiting me in Portugal in March, to fly to Paris to attend four of the largest and most jaw-dropping fashion exhibits ever mounted in the City of Lights...and Haute Couture. In the 3 days we were there, besides the exhibitions, we saw as much as we could possibly …
....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 …
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 …
As you all know, because of major safety and security issues on St. Kitts and differences that could not be easily resolved between the PC and it's older volunteers, I returned to the States on January 20th to resume my normal life. Ha! Major problem was that my house in Wilmington is rented for the …
My Home on the Roam 