Living life unscripted..
Just before we took off for Orlando, the Captain came on the PA system and asked how many ran the NYC Marathon and a loud cheer erupted. It turns out he himself had ran the race in 2007. A couple of days ago, Facebook reminded me of what I posted last year after watching the [...]
Italy. It's been on our bucket list. We finally checked it off this past summer when Ralph and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary in Rome! We stayed for 10 days and would have loved to have stayed longer. All in all, we visited enough places, saw enough historical sites, ate enough Italian food, drank [...]
Andy yells behind the sushi bar "Hello, Dr., Hello, Joy". Yes we are on a first name basis with the owners and sushi chef of Banzai Thai & Sushi Restaurant. With so many chain restaurants everywhere, it is heartwarming to find a small family-owned one such as Banzai Sushi and Thai Restaurant. We have been [...]
My husband and I traveled to Italy this past summer to celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary. We visited Rome, Florence, Assisi, Cinque Terre and Venice. We didn't go with a tour group instead planned it out by myself. I've been planning our family trips in the US for years, how hard can it be to [...]
I spent Labor Day weekend with Erin and Howard in the Big Apple. I traveled to New York City to be a guest for a podcast taping by Bar Crawl Radio. You can read about it here. The taping lasted less than an hour so I spent the rest of my time to sight see [...]
On September 4, I had the most exciting experience of being interviewed in a pod cast by Bar Crawl Radio on immigration. I was one of three guests, including, Ivana from the former Czech Republic, and "Joe" (not his real name) from Ireland. It was such an honor to share my experiences about immigrating to [...]
Last year, Ralph and I started Formation to the Permanent Diaconate in the Diocese of Orlando. During the retreat to kick off the year, we wrote a letter to Jesus, our friend. We also provided a self-addressed, stamped envelope to mail it. I had forgotten about the letter and, today I received it! Oh what [...]
