Must-Do St. Paul: Cooks of Crocus Hill
Often when I’m traveling alone, I scout out prospective places to bring my Mom and daughter if we were to return. The minute I walked into the Cooks of Crocus […]
Category Archives: Good Ole USA
Purple Reign
I couldn’t visit Minneapolis without making a trek to see Paisley Park, especially after talking to some of the locals. Every one of them talked highly of Prince and what […]
TBEX Minneapolis
My 5-day trip to the TBEX (Travel Bloggers Exchange) Conference in Minneapolis left me motivated and inspired to resume travel blogging. If you’ve never been to one, it’s a conference full […]
Color Me Happy
Childhood I saw the highway exit sign for the Mall of America and I involuntarily clenched the steering wheel. I sucked in a breath and made myself turn off the […]
Bizarrely, Andrew Zimmern Brought Me Back
Hello! I started to resume blogging in February and then disappeared again. I’ve still been dealing with the turmoil going on in my life and trying to figure out what […]
Harper Lee’s Hometown – Monroeville, Alabama
There’s a small patch of land in rural Monroeville, Alabama that seems like it should be hallowed ground among writers. It is the spot of land where Truman Capote grew […]
Pic #5 – The Long Island Medium Comes to Town
We had our code words ready. If Theresa Caputo said anything about the price of Tide or the word “tiger,” my husband and I would have known it was one […]
Pic #2 – A Small Town America Celebration
We’re often away on the 4th of July, but in 2006 we happened to be on vacation in the U.S. We had rented a cottage in Boothbay Harbor, Maine and […]
Papa’s Polydactyls
I absolutely loved visiting the Hemingway House in Key West, Florida. The old stone mansion was gorgeous, with floor-to-ceiling windows lining the walls of nearly every room. All of […]
Wait For It… Disney Lines!
I told you there were two things that set Disneyworld apart for me from any other theme park. One was the hunt for Hidden Mickeys. The other was the way […]
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