Category Archives: Travel

Palermo 1

Palermo is a hard city to forget – I’ve still got the bedbug bites as reminders – but an even harder city to figure out. It is a tumultuous, urban, energetic mess sprawling like a hardy weed at the foot of jutting rocky cliffs and choppy ocean waters. In the middle of September it was [...]

Travelin’ Light 0

When was the last time I took a two-week vacation?  I honestly can’t say with any certainty – high school, college…? A couple years back we spent ten days in Paris. It felt extravagant and my memories of our time there are as airy and sweet as a macaroon. We recently spent two whole weeks traveling in Italy; [...]