Category: Travel
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A Tuscan Pottery Gem
Part of the impetus behind starting this blog was to have an outlet to preserve travel photos and stories, and our Italy trip two years ago had enough stories to keep me going for quite some time. As our travels are more limited currently by the stage of life we are at — college visits,…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
Descending to the dungeon of San Juan’s Castillo San Cristóbal definitely had an eerie feel to it. The feeling was only compounded when we stopped to examine the sketches on the dungeon walls, made by a prisoner long ago. Click on any photo to enlarge. The story behind the drawings in the dungeon is recounted here.…
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Secrets of Parenting Success
What is the secret formula to raising a happy kid? a successful child? Since we are just making it up as we go along in this household on many days, I certainly don’t have the answer. But we remind ourselves of certain basic principles from time to time. “It’s not our job to toughen our…
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Spooktacular! (Travel Theme: Spooky)
Originally posted on Travel. Garden. Eat.: Beautiful Glensheen mansion in Duluth, Minnesota hosted its second annual “Jack O’Lantern Spooktacular” last weekend. The evenings were classic bone-chilling, northern Minnesota fall weather, but they were clear with an almost-full moon for some of the nights of the event, which added to the spooky fun ambience! As you enter the grounds,…
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