Is breaking your traditions a good thing or a bad? Does it show adaptation and a willingness to embrace change or do we miss it like a part of us that has been broken off? For most of the last 10 years on New Years Eve my husband and I have reveled in our hotel ...

Often when I can’t go to sleep after any exciting day, I write my blog posts or letters in my head. I compose and think of the words that inspired me about the event or the problem to be solved. When I was recently thinking about what words came to my mind when I thought ...

Since I first saw them in Italian cookbooks, on blogs, TV cooking specials and in the raw in Italian markets I have wanted to make stuffed Zucchini blossoms. By I have never been able to get them here in Frankfurt at the markets and have feared bringing them back from my travels in my suitcase ...

What do you write when you have longingly awaited a visit to an area that you have obviously underestimated? When it was better than your dreams? When you can’t find the words to say how inspiring it was and is? When you can’t capture the sounds and smells in a picture to share? Have you ...

Returning to my beloved New England for my XXth class reunion was worth making the transatlantic flight; even it was only for 4 days. I hadn’t been “home” (my parents and siblings no longer live here) for 20 years! But some things never change. The smell of the sea when you get off the plane ...