All My Latest Blogs are Here

Tracing Roots

La dolce vita? Yes, please! There is no doubt that Italy is dreamy. I assumed Sicily would just be an extension of “the boot,” another…

Even after living here for 4 years, sometimes I have to pinch myself. The other day while my mom was visiting, we decided to take…

We’re sitting on top of a massive boulder, watching the once blue cloudless sky turn pink. The behemoth stone has been polished by the wind…

Back in 2013, my husband Mark and I were living in Chicago, working 80 to 90 hours a week behind a desk. At the time,…

For 10 years before my husband, Mark and I left Chicago, I was working 24/7. As the owner of a wholesale women’s clothing business, my…

Tired of cold weather and the workday drudgery in his native Minnesota, Dave Christopherson was eager to turn his back on the working world. Having…

Sailing into the sunset to start a new life in a tropical paradise is the stuff of many retirees’ dreams. However, sometimes the fear that…

For 11 years, my husband Mark and I traveled to all the places we thought we might move to, researched so much that we felt…

1. Great Food Penang is well-known in Southeast Asia as a foodie haven. It’s a passion that the locals don’t take lightly (you can’t even take…

Tired of shoveling snow yet? Are those once delicate flakes now just a pile of grey slush? Snow is beautiful while it’s falling; who doesn’t…