Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. A Sunday in the life of an...

Pandemics are hard. Some days the uncertainty is thick and hangs heavy. I know families now who have lost loved ones to the virus. That...

Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. My toast burned this morning. The bread got...

Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. Mimi As a writer I want to be honest in my...

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Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. "What a monotony we’d fallen into. Every...

Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. Like many of you, I've had a life-long love...

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Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. Shock After ending my travel quarantine I...

Blogging about unexpected roads traveled. Seeking to keep my chin up, and to help lift yours. Today is day 9 of a 14-day quarantine, my...

Blogging not from Florence or Vienna, but from Nashville. The unexpected roads traveled turned out to be unexpected indeed. Ecclesiastes...

One of my favorite books is The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society. While the title is a mouthful, it’s a rare jewel—an epistolary...

I love to teach, in part, because I love to learn. Here’s the most recent thing I’ve learned: the Dutch have a phrase that means, “It’s a...

Seeing 2020: Blogging from Italy as a new day begins...about life, art, writing, and the unexpected roads traveled. God's gifting to man...

How do I love Florence? Let me count the ways. I love the dark chocolate. In molten lava cakes with strawberries. In Baci (kisses) made...

Eleven days into my semester abroad, Italy has me humbled. I'm feeling my age. (Students use cell phones like they were born with them in...

Seeing 2020: Blogging from Italy as a new day begins...about life, art, writing, and the unexpected roads traveled. A month ago I sat...

In my stomach. For the upcoming adventure of travel. Stephen King captured this feeling well when he penned Red's thoughts as he...

I went breezing into Publix in a hurry, like always, and walked past her without seeing. It took a minute to realize she was talking to...