Inspiration

by Beverly Garrity What started on my own, ended up with 4 new friends and memories of a surprisingly stunning and peaceful travel destination. Leaving my usual travel companion – my husband – behind to travel to the annual Taiwan Cycling Festival and see what else this island had to offer. I fell in love…

by Jayme Lamm There are things we notice as teenagers we simply can’t fathom. Eating alone (by choice) is one of them. I distinctly remember being out to eat with my mom one day when I spotted a woman probably in her early thirties a few tables over eating alone. This was well before the…

Oh, how we Divas love the Swiss. They have created so many wonderful delights with such passion and precision: Swiss chocolate, Swiss cheese, Swiss watches… Swiss men and, of course MBT shoes (Masai Barefoot Technology). Since we enjoy giving away exquisite gifts to our members, we were thinking that a pair of Swiss-engineered MBTs would…

by Lorraine Rivera I was fresh out of college and blowing what little savings I had traveling for five weeks through Europe with a Eurail pass. I had agreed to meet up with an aunt who was living in England before I headed home, but it was late fall and I was in no hurry…

by Kimberly Wainscoat I spent a glorious time in Tuscany this last autumn in the hilltop village of Radicondoli, a place nearly untouched by time and swathed in the kind of beauty you usually only find in paintings by 14th century Italian masters. Living the good life is effortless here, especially when Marlane Miriello comes…

by Shelley Seale Shadow had a boyfriend, and she clearly missed him. I had felt a little guilty pulling her away from him as we set off down the trail; she kept turning her head back to look for him. Now we had stopped halfway through the ride to rest, and take in the incredible…