Did you ever misread a situation so dramatically it lead you to question your ability to read signs at all? I did several times last week. A lonely looking man approached my daughters and me as we were sitting at a rooftop establishment waiting for sunset. "Is it okay if I sit over here?" he [...]
I found everything about The Hotel Boulderado, with its Otis Elevator and historic decor, charming. My daughters had a different impression. “This place looks haunted,” Molly said as we checked in just after midnight last Thursday night. I cheerfully disagreed. I love old places. I have to. I'm old. We made our way across a [...]
"Only by pairing knowledge with experience will art evolve," said French composer Hertor Berlioz. I'm not sure if my son Vinnie and daughter in-law Danni have heard this quote, but I know they're living it. They recently launched a website announcing their business, Paired Experiences, in which they offer wine classes and mixology workshops, multi-course [...]
Every now and then, you get to feel a little like Alice in Wonderland as you make your way through this old world. I did Saturday afternoon when I found myself wandering through one of the most beautiful, whimsical gardens I'd ever seen. And, like Alice, I stumbled onto the whole scene quite by accident. [...]
“I’m so excited for you to meet my trees,” my daughter Molly said as she greeted me in the front yard of her new apartment. We had come to Minneapolis to help her move, but she had already taken care of, well, everything, except the assembly of a new bed and she did most of [...]