You may recall from an earlier set of posts that I got a serious crush on the Alentejo region when we visited. It was still spring time and everything was…
The services we render to our family and friends can run in all different kinds of ways: watch their cats. Water their plants. Help move a couch. I’ve done all…
In the popular zeitgeist the “Rocky Statue” is right at the top of the list of attractions in Philadelphia. Who doesn’t want to get their picture taken with a statue…
… is another man’s impressionist-stuffed museum. The man in question is Albert Barnes, a native Philadelphian who made a fortune with a drug you’ve never heard of (unless your baby…
So as not to completely bury the lede, Lisa’s father passed away a couple of weeks ago. As a result, we’ve been back in the United States – Philadelphia to…
[We’re a bit busy and out of sorts this week, so we’re pulling out quite an old post from 2007; it’s an old favorite and Lisa’s father, the “Terry” in…
There are moments in life that get packaged into “A Tale” rather than just “a story”. You tell it practically the same way each time you share it, and you…
Although his images defined fashion for decades, Irving Penn began his artistic life dreaming of being a painter. He graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1938…
Our trip to A Coruña could be counted as 3 days, but the first day included the drive up along with everything you read about in last week’s post. The…
Finally! We committed ourselves to staying put while we’re taking our Portuguese language class, so the only jaunts we’ve taken have been squeezed in during holidays or else came up…
