Our merry band set forth one morning to explore the Alhambra – an ancient web of palaces and fortresses built by the medieval kings of Granada from the 9th through the 14th century. Our tour guide showered us with competent details that unfortunately lacked the spellbinding quality of enchanting tales of love, war and chivalry. …
A night of futbol and tapas
The evening of our arrival in Granada we attended a top division futbol match (of course) at Estadio Nuevo los Carmenes. Granada Club del Futbol fought hard against Athletic Club Bilbaoing, chanting and screaming bloody murder at the referee and players is all part of the fan experience. Our boys cheered and ate pipas …
Traveling with teenage boys
Traveling with five teenage boys to Granada, Spain proved easier than I thought. If you don’t count one pair of broken headphones (a casualty of a mini soccer game in the Philadelphia airport), one iPhone thought to be lost sometime during our four hour layover in Philadelphia, but …
Come along with me to Granada, Spain
Life is about opportunities. The opportunity to travel to a foreign land is alluring for anyone who is curious about culture, but for five teenage boys who want to explore the culture of fútbol (soccer) in Spain – it is everything. Come along with me as I blog about my adventures with James, Rob, and four …
To live forever
News flash: We will not live forever. Neither will our parents. Accidents, illness, disease – such as breast cancer – and the inevitable aging process guarantee this. (And no parent should have to outlive their children, but do we really need to see it in a Superbowl commercial?) To care for our aging parents, we need to be …
What’s your motherhood story?
We all have a story about motherhood, or our mom, or about being a mom (or dad). So what happens when you give a mom a microphone? They bring you on a journey. With that in mind, I signed up to audition for this big, fat, hairy, scary public speaking event called “Listen to Your Mother” (LTYM). …
Lessons from the Your Turn Challenge
I took on the Your Turn Challenge – a seven day blogging challenge inspired by Seth Godin and his book “What to do when it’s your turn” to get in the habit of blogging everyday, to get better and faster with blogging and connect with others. I hoped the Your Turn Challenge will remind me to do my best …
Lost
I lost it. I don’t know where exactly where the pink flip phone landed in the falling snow. There were inches or feet of cold, icy fluff already covering the field where I walked with my dog. Pearl bounded and pounced after snowballs and I laughed at her white goatee – a mix of saliva …