I don’t even know how to put Italy into words. I don’t think you CAN put it into words, that’s the allure- a place so beautiful, so historically rich and yet still so relevant- you have to see it for yourself to truly understand. My latest Europe trip began in Vicenza, Italy where I was […]

As a kid, I never understood my mom’s fascination with Colonial Williamsburg. “It never changes! Why do we have to keep going back if it never changes??” we’d whine. But now that I’m a bit older, I think I finally get it- there’s a subtle romanticism about the simplicity of a town that been frozen in […]

I remember as a kid my mom always used to recite this silly little poem whenever the trees started to come into bloom- “Spring has sprung, the grass has riz’, oh how happy I is.” One of those things you roll your eyes at as a kid, but I know sure as day that I’ll […]

The way the light spilled onto the thousands of buttercups, scattered along the meadow floor, it was enough to take anyone’s breath away. But then you add Mike & Jen into the equation, and everything else sort of falls away, and it’s them that you can’t peel your eyes away from, not the wildflowers. That […]