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Happy New Year
January 1, 2018Every New Year’s Eve, as the clock strikes midnight, I look ahead with hopes and dreams for …what exactly?…
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Three Days in Lisbon – Best of LIsbon, Portugal
January 8, 2017Three Days in Lisbon
Lisbon has a heartbeat of it’s own and is infused with architecture history, art, music… -
Leaf-Peeping
October 26, 2015For those of you who aren’t familiar with this venerable Rite of Autumn in the Northeast region of the...
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What Not To Ask An Adoptive Parent
September 11, 2015We’ve been a family for a long time now, and I often forget that Yao Yao is adopted. (No,…
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THE CASE AGAINST CARPE DIEM
July 15, 2015My husband, Jim, and I have traveled all over the world together. And when we added Yao Yao, our…
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Surfing in Sri Lanka
May 15, 2015Here’s where it gets fun – fun for me, anyway. The instructor took Jim and Yao Yao and showed…
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Adventures Close to Home
May 9, 2015Spring had finally arrived, and Yao Yao and I were kicking around ideas for what we could do to…
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A Teenager’s Top 5 Hotel Pet Peeves
April 24, 2015It’s funny to watch Yao Yao, my 13-year-old daughter, develop her own likes and dislikes, her “must haves,” and,…
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Cheese Making at Yao Yao’s Camp Imagination
April 3, 2015Today, we’ll often make lunch into a cheese fest, with two or three choices and some fruit and a…
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Yao Yao’s Top 10 Islands: #1 Nantucket
February 21, 2015Ah but for Yao Yao, it wasn’t the windswept beaches or chowder shacks that made Nantucket her #1 island.