by Wanda Medina An ex-boyfriend once told me about his stay in Venice while we were catching up during a lengthy and quite interesting phone conversation. I listened quietly as he regaled me with his Venetian experience staying in one of Italy’s top-notch five-star hotels amidst the old-world romance the enticing city had to offer….
by Patti Mangan and Kendra Frisbie I’ve been surrounded. Inundated by vestiges of travels past and travels to be. Engulfed by travel newsletters, mileage program literature, newspapers, magazines, menus, matchbooks, pottery, and other bits and pieces I’ve gathered along the way. It’s sadly true. I had the May 1997 issue of Travel & Leisure, along…
TravelbyJen.com announced a $399 sale on 4-night all inclusive Los Cabos packages from San Francisco. Travel is valid August 1 through October 31. Includes: – Non-stop airfare on United from San Francisco (reg. $399) – 4-nights accommodations at the Tesoro Los Cabos resort – All meals, drinks, onsite entertainment and gratuities – Roundtrip transfers in…
Elisa Batista, a mother and student of Chinese, helped found the parenting site, MotherTalkers.com, rants and raves on modern motherhood. Prior to the birth of her son, Aristotle, almost three years ago, she worked as a reporter for the technology website Wired News in San Francisco. She has also written for the Boston Herald and…
by Lesley Seacrist Hi, my name is Lesley and I am addicted to Mate. I can’t go one day without it. When I first started, I did it with a group of people, but when there is no one else—I still can’t resist. All my friends say that it is weird and the taste is…
by Janet Bein, Young at Heart Diva I didn’t think twice about inviting my daughter Orli to join me for a cruise of the Galapagos Islands. This opportunity to explore the equatorial waters off the coast of Ecuador was sufficiently tempting that she was willing to plead with her boss for some extra vacation days….
by Jennifer Anthony “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” Alfred Joyce Kilmer’s Trees has been a bit of a joke in my family ever since one of my brothers, then a shy teenager, was coerced into reciting it in front of our church’s congregation. We were young and…