Paris in the Time of Coronavirus!

Many of you already know how much I love Paris. I especially love that I need only take a mere 2 ½ hour flight from Portugal to visit one of my very favorite cities in the world. I had previously booked a trip in April because my dear friend Aubrey had a family vacation scheduled [...]

Time for a New Book?

Sorry that I have been so bad about updating my blog but I will try to be better. The reason I’m writing now is I actually want to hear from all of you! I’ve received so many fantastic comments about my book Whatever – How to Look Younger than Your Actual Age that many of [...]

My Book is Here!

I’m so excited to announce that I finally finished writing a book and it is here! Thanks to so many of you who encouraged me to share and write how I maintain my youthfulness, I was able (and motivated) to compile them (finally!) in book format: Whatever – How to Look Younger than Your Actual Age.  [...]

Life in Portugal during Coronavirus

It's been a while since I've written so I thought I'd give an update on our lives since we began self-isolating and social distancing due to COVID-19. We've been self-isolating since Thursday, March 12. Today marks 20 days of being homebound. A few days before we decided to do this, Ry had been pleading with [...]

How to Look 25 When You’re 50

That may be a slight exaggeration. I’m not sure it is possible to look 25 when you’re 50 but I figured it would capture your attention. Also, I have a few more years until I turn 50 so hold your horses Betty. I’m not quite there yet. However, countless friends and family have asked my [...]

Penn Momentum 2020

Sometime this past summer my dear friend and occasional work colleague Meesh (who also writes this wonderful blog) asked me if I was available to help her on the tech committee for the Momentum 2020 Planning Committee. Meesh, ever always the leader, is the co-chair on this committee. I, of course, was eager to jump [...]

Porto Love

This post is long overdue because we went to Porto on November 1st. November 1st was a national holiday here in Portugal (All Saints' Day) so all schools were closed. It was the perfect time for a 7-hour road trip up to Porto, a city I have been wanting to re-visit since we moved here [...]

Prost! It’s Oktoberfest!

We made it to Oktoberfest this year - the actual, real authentic Bavarian Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. And it was A BLAST! I'm so glad we made this last minute decision to go - it was a once-in-a-lifetime, check it off your bucket list experience. We left Saturday afternoon and took a straight flight on [...]

Our Roman Holiday

I have had a hard time writing this recap post because honestly, part of me wants to keep it all to myself. I think Italy does that - romances and seduces you so much that my limited vocabulary is not enough to explain its gloriousness! Since my clients would be celebrating the US Labor Day [...]

A Day in Tangier

If you follow my social media accounts then many of you already know that we spent last Saturday in Tangier to meet up with my niece and goddaughter Kyra who is studying in Meknes, Morocco this summer. The sweet little baby that I used to hold in my arms just turned 21 and is only one [...]