Day #11,580 1/2 {New Year’s Eve 2013}: There was one Saharan activity to which I’d secretly most been looking forward. Riding a camel is just so Classic Desert, is it not? Mr. M’s adorable mother Mama Betty somehow got the idea that her children and their multifarious luggage would be chartering camels from the edge of […]
No matter the place or purpose, string lights invariably make me think of the holidays. My very favorite holiday lights were discovered in a Christmas market on an extra-long layover in London last Christmas. Cities across Western Europe are rife with Christmas markets like Winter Wonderland. They’re a festive alternative to the drudgery of mall […]
During this most recent trip back to New York, I didn’t manage to see the giant Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. I never saw a single holiday window display, and I didn’t go ice skating in Central Park. Frankly, I never even went to Central Park. Sacrilege, I know. I love New York around the holidays, […]
With Thanksgiving fast receding in the rear view mirror, it’s time to start making your lists and checking them twice! Holiday-loving little elf that I am, I assembled a few ideas for the adventuring-types on your Nice List. If I can keep just one Pandora charm bracelet off the streets (shudder)… then my job here […]
Time for a new tradition, says me! Enjoying other people’s photos is perhaps my favorite part of reading my favorite blogs. Each photo permits me a little window into a different life. Kind of like travel, no? Hence my new series: “Window Into…” Each week I’ll feature one photo centered around a theme and offer […]
Day # 11, 544: Happy Thanksgivnukkah, y’all! I trust you are either elbow-deep in a turkey’s innards (or a jiggly tofurkey, if you’re an herbivore like me) or pulling out your menorah and frying up some sweet potato latkes. Or both! In between all that holiday prepping, I hope you have a moment or two […]
Day #11,260: As of today, Mr. M and I have been partners-in-crime for 15 years and exactly half of our lives. Well, technically as of yesterday… but a day-before-Valentine’s-Day anniversary is both redundant and expensive, so we long ago decided to create the franken-holiday known as “Valentinesversary.” Our first date was almost our last. I […]
Days #11,188-9: After a youth spent despising New Year’s Eve for its empty, sequined promises that never met the enormity expected of Last Night of the Year (ugh, or the Millennium… NYE 1999 was particularly horrid) my old age hath brought wisdom. The key to a good New Year’s Eve somehow isn’t good planning (this […]
**I am alive! I felt this should be heartily exclaimed because (1) it’s a refreshing thing to affirm every so often, and (2) I completely fell off the map due to a nasty flu & subsequent internet-free travel abroad. I’ve been a bad, bad blogger, but on the upside… I am alive!** Days #11,184-85: After […]
This year we’re spending New Years with brother-in-law B, soon-to-be-sister LP, Mr. M’s cousin Bash, and Bash’s lovely girlfriend Jess. And the six of us have somehow decided that 2013 should be welcomed in Lisbon, Portugal! While Portugal somehow never made my list of Top 100 Places to See (no sugar-coating that one), I’m still […]