“Katie, I’ve never seen my husband–” Maria didn’t have time to finish her sentence before Staffan, her husband, laughed and spit wine all over the table. It was one of those moments — one of those meals — I’ll not soon forget. Read the rest of this gem…
I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I’m not really a joiner.
Like, I enjoy the company of humans and socializing with like-minded people (or open, un-like-minded people) over unprocessed nibblies and the warm buzz of alcohol, but when someone tries to add an element of organization to the gathering, I get all sweaty and uncomfortable. Read the rest of this gem…
Hang on tight! This is what it’s really like to explore Tuscany via Vespa. Read the rest of this gem…
Carissima Siena,
Should I call you dearest, do you think, when our time together was so tumultuous and brief?
Like a couple of teenagers, we were — you exasperated at my poor skills of communication, and me laughing at your sometimes brazen sense of style. Read the rest of this gem…
Tap, tap.
This thing on?
I feel like I need to get something out in the open. Read the rest of this gem…
Destination: Rosemary Beach, Florida
You know, it just hit me — just last night, like a fist to the cheekbone — that I’m going to be seeing my brother, my sister, and my father over the course of a week starting Thursday, and that seeing all three of them in such close proximity of timing is a rarity rated up there with lightning strikes and Nessie sightings. Read the rest of this gem…
Destination: Alys Beach, Florida
“Go check out Alys,” the saleslady at the children’s clothing store in Seaside told me with a knowing smile.
(She pronounced it “Alice.”) Read the rest of this gem…
Destination: Seaside, Florida
I departed Panama City with high hopes for what I’d find further west along Florida’s panhandle, a stretch of shoreline that laps the Gulf of Mexico known as the Emerald Coast.
Well.
Based on my last non-post, you may have guessed that I went somewhere last week.
Somewhere beachy. Read the rest of this gem…
So The Bloggess recently wrote a post in which she mentioned a Facebook meme that stated: