It takes backbone to sue the Trump Administration. Especially if you’re women. And you own a restaurant in Boulder, Utah, one of the most remote areas of the US, elevation ~7,000 feet, population ~ 180 people. Where the geology’s so rugged that early explorers declared “no animal without wings could
What symbol from your early childhood would you have liked to be buried with if you died young, as so many children did in those days? Last week we wrote about the Palazzo Blanco Maniace (Maniacal White Palace), the suite we stayed in in Ortygia, a city that for centuries
What did you do to celebrate your retirement? Magellan chose Palm Springs. Figured he’d improve his golf score. Take in the BNP Paribas Open—the tennis tournament in Indian Wells. And enjoy some hiking in the area.
What you remember about a place is often odd, isn’t it? Take, for example, Agrotourismo Son Vives in the northern Menorca where Magellan and I stayed five nights. Our unforgettable memories? Eating loquats for breakfast every day. Paqui’s lamb, her homemade vegetable lasagna, pumpkin ravioli. Following the call of hoopoes
One Saturday morning a few weeks ago we awoke to an email from our granddaughter Clare. She’d been working at a café on Granville Island for the summer and, having received her schedule for the following week, she suggested we go on a mini BC vacation on her two free
More than three decades ago when we lived in Calgary, Magellan and I thought we’d go to Japan in the spring for the sakura (桜), the Japanese word for cherry blossoms derived from saku 咲, which means to bloom. I even studied Japanese in anticipation. For some reason that I don’t recall,