Chez Moi, Encore. . . . Home Again, Jet-Lagged Again!

4:14 a.m., and I’ve been up for an hour; jetlag, if I may be so blunt, is a bitch.  But she’s a bitch who, if managed well, can lead to productivity. So. My morning pages…

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Travel: Pressing “Pause” in Croatia

As I snapped photos of Pater and our “Rome crew” — daughter, son-in-law-granddaughter — in Diocletian’s Palace in Split a few evenings ago,  a young man offered to take one of all of us. Lovely…

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Spica: Meeting a Friend for Coffee, in Zagreb!

 We’re currently enjoying a brilliant weekend in Split where our daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter have flown to from Rome to join us — it’s very hot here, so we get to the beach early, have…

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Postcard from Zagreb

Hello from Croatia! We’re in Zagreb after a two-step train trip from Venice, broken by a night in Ljubljana, Slovenia–a beautiful city to which we we would love to return. As you might imagine, that…

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Venice in Three Days? Impossible! But Well Worth the Doomed Effort, Truly. . .

Sweet Pater, he took five or six shots to get this one for me, first trying to figure out how he’d got stuck on a black-and-white filter, and then trying for an angle that minimised…

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