I’ve been absent for a bit as I traveled to southern California for my niece’s wedding. It was a fabulous weekend full of love and sunshine, a perfect day for a southern California autumn wedding. It was a great time! I’ll be putting together a post about other things I did that extended weekend, as … More Autumn 2019 – Twin Cities Minnesota
Or I should say, the food that we enjoyed in Spain this trip. If you missed my intro post about our trip to Spain, you can check it out here. For this post I thought I’d talk about the food on this trip. We landed bright and early in Málaga, even before the sunrise, on … More The food in Spain
It’s time for my annual recap of our trips to the fair. We did opening day a little differently than most years where we all have the day off and go together. One big difference this year is that I no longer have a parking spot on the St. Paul campus which meant a different … More Minnesota State Fair 2019
We just returned from many adventures in Spain and I’d love to tell you all about them! We spent six nights in Málaga then three nights in Madrid. It was magical and frustrating and beautiful and all of these things. This was our fourth trip to Málaga and we got to explore the city further … More Spain, revisited
Last weekend my friend Ruth and I went on a Summit Avenue walking tour in St. Paul and I wanted to share photos and what I remember. It’s a 90 minute tour of some of the biggest and oldest homes on Summit Avenue that starts at the James J. Hill house. We walked maybe a … More Summit Avenue Walking Tour, St. Paul, MN, June 2019
Here we are a week away from the one year anniversary of my mother’s death as I start this blog post. I haven’t done anything to create the post all year that I intended to do long before now. I remember that last year at this time we were on “death watch”. Mom had a … More Rest in peace my beautiful mother
I’m working my way through my posts about our trip to Washington, D.C. I did a sum-up of nearly everything we did and another post about the great food that we had, one political cartoon exhibit , so this time I want to highlight the art that we saw and experienced. I had been to the … More National Gallery of Art and National Portrait Gallery
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