I am on a plane at least 30 times each year for work. Lately, it’s been twice a week. On average, this is true for the last seven years. Or, very nearly, my entire adult life. I think this qualifies me as a VERY FREQUENT TRAVELER. As such, I have some advice I’d like to…
I am not Italian. My parents are not Italian. Nobody in my family is even married to an Italian. My grandmother’s sister-in-law though was allegedly pretty friendly with Vic Cassano who owned a pizza joint and therefore, eighty years on, my family claims this lasagna as our own. Except the secret to this lasagna isn’t…
How do travel writers do it? How do they come up with 1,000 concise words about what to do in a given town in a set period of time, all of it picturesque, unique, special in some way? Before nearly every trip I take – whether it’s a weekend trip or a three-week, multi-city expedition…
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“We are simply together and glad for it. There are always those perfect times with the people we love, those moments of joy and equality that sustain us later on. I am living that time with my husband now. I try to study our happiness so that I will remember it in the future, just…
Our home is currently a gaping pit. It is a red, crusty maw in the earth. The college kids who live next door are genuinely afraid for their safety, not trusting their drunk selves with a veritable canyon running alongside their sidewalk. Our home is a hole in the earth. This construction process has really…
There are a lot of really, really good muffin recipes on the internet. I’ve tried many of them. My favorite is Smitten Kitchen’s “Perfect Blueberry Muffins.” She presents a pretty basic recipe and I can guarantee that if you follow it pretty closely, you will get a muffin as dome-shaped and glittering as hers. It’s…
Had you told me a year ago that the phrase, “Is it dog friendly?” would be part of my daily lexicon, I’d have laughed out loud. Alas, this is me now. Calling up restaurants in hopes of convincing hosts to reserve outdoor tables. Basing my after work drinks on whether or not the restaurant has…
“People blame one for dwelling on trivialities, but life is made up of them.” Reading, “What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories,” I came across this line and paused. How true. How beautifully, hideously true. Some days the trivial stuff is the best stuff. What to eat for dinner.…
Forget 36 hours in D.C., just give me six. Wake up on a perfectly sunny blue sky day and walk to the Georgetown Waterfront. Perhaps stop for coffee somewhere like Baked and Wired (enter and go to the counter on the right, the left side is the line for cupcakes and they’re delicious, but literally…
What do you get when two slightly hungover American tourists board a flight at London-Gatwick bound for Skiathos, Greece with two rowdy hen parties in matching t-shirts with incomprehensibly British sayings? I don’t know, I fell asleep. But when I landed. Wow. Or better, “Mamma Mia!” (sung loudly, with an exclamation point). We landed in…
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