I’m 39. (Give me a second, I’m still adjusting to the sound of that.) And in 350 days I’ll turn 40, not that I’m counting.
Right before my birthday we got slammed by a savage Nor’easter, receiving …
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Feliz Navidad (Mexico), Frohe Weihnachten (Germany), Joyeux Noël (France), Buon Natale (Italy), Mutlu Noeller (Turkey)…Wherever you are in the world this holiday season, we’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas.
For our 2016 holiday gift …
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Woody Harrelson holding a drink and an uncut lemon in one hand, his foot in the other, posing in front of a medieval building turned restaurant. That’s my first impression of the Galway Film Fleadh.
I’ll …
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Last season’s holidays were a blur, with plenty of 15-hour days spent sewing and shipping travel scarves to areas near and far. So in January we took our third Carnival cruise.
The cruise provided …
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Poof! Mind Blown.
It’s a bold statement. I’m well aware of that. But, then again, Roatan—the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras—is a pretty bold place, color wise anyways.
And color is everywhere on West Bay …
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The first thing you notice is the water.
Looking out from our sixth floor balcony on the Carnival Glory, the Caribbean Sea is a soothing turquoise blue, the likes of which I’ve …
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I didn’t expect it to happen here.
San Francisco? Definitely. Paris? Sure. Amsterdam? Certainly. But Rotterdam?
That’s where I was wrong. Rotterdam is a world-class jazz city; I just didn’t know it, yet. Thankfully, Tokyo jazz band, …
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