You are wandering along Old San Juan’s Atlantic coastline and fortress wall between San Cristobal and San Felipe’s El Morro castles, in Puerto Rico, taking in the magnificent ocean vistas, and suddenly you stop. Everything. Completely. Your mind, already in travel vacation mode, further escapes the daily infernal pace it has come accustomed to. Your body comes to a halt. From […]

I dreamt of participating in the Carnival of Venice, Italy, since adolescent. At the time living in France, in the Loire Valley, Italy did not seem that far… Yet, it is only after returning to my father’s land when 30 yrs of age (as a woman I do not like to use what I call “the O word”…), the United […]

“If you could do it, I believe I can!”  That attitude seems to have gotten me in trouble more than once in my life…. Mind you, I was saying this as I was starring into the innocent eyes of a 5 yr old at breakfast, on the terraces of the Luquillo Sunrise Beach Inn, as her mother was touting how well […]