Every weekend in Recoleta, Buenos Aires there is a huge sell and do anything and everything-circus-festival-tango dancing-hair braiding-musician performing-show, observed by locals relaxing on grassy knolls, while sharing a round of mate. Read More...

Author Elizabeth Gilbert described divorce as going through a car wreck every day for two years. That’s one of the best descriptions I have heard, because it contains all the elements of fear, adrenaline, exhaustion, surprise, hurt, anger, distress, disbelief, and a thousand other things you feel when it is happening. Read More...

Giving birth is a life changing experience. I could comfortably posit that it does, indeed, make you a better person. Motherhood allowed me to grow as a person in a way that no other experience could. It gave me the chance to care about someone more than myself, in a healthy way. Read More...

Everything I do, I have learned from my mother. Whether it is the way I create a first draft of a note, or the way I respond to my partner, or to my children, it is my learned belief in the power of the positive that allows me the life I live. Read More...

Ah! There’s nothing like those first seventy plus degree days after a windy, chilly winter! It’s time to rip off the bulky sweaters, put away the fleece lined shoes, pack up the quilts – and go shopping! Eagerly we speed-walk through the crowded store until we spy our destination – summer clothes! Read More...