Today's Mindful Moment - Perspective
Today's mindful moment comes from a wet bench I'm sitting on watching the lake in Stresa. For the first time we had an inside day...
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Maria Scuor
Jun 3, 20224 min read
Udine - Friuli
L'italiano è appena sotto l'inglese in blu - Scusa si ci sono errori (Italian translations just under English in blue) Gianni was born in...
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Maria Scuor
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Italia - Festa della Repubblica
June 2nd in Italy is the "Festa della Repubblica" (Italy's National Day) and today in Stresa it was impossible to find parking because...
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Maria Scuor
May 30, 20221 min read
Hörifäscht - Höri, Switzerland Party
We spent an afternoon in Höri a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. This small town of about...
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Maria Scuor
May 30, 20223 min read
Switzerland Outing
We spent a weekend visiting Gianni's sister Nadja and family in Bülach a small town in the municipality of Zürich, Switzerland. Well six...
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Maria Scuor
May 27, 20222 min read
Slowing down - the Italian way
Having been in Stresa, Italy the past four weeks we have been literally forced to slow down because life is so much different than Canada....
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Maria Scuor
May 24, 20228 min read
Reflections of Times Gone by - Prossenicco
Per L'Italiano scorri verso il basso fino vedi l'italiano My parents and family are from small town Castelsilano in Calabria and when I...
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Maria Scuor
May 16, 20223 min read
Slow it Down and Enjoy Every Mouthful
Living in Italy has made us slow down in every way as life here is about enjoying every moment. Workers actually walk away from work and...
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Maria Scuor
May 11, 20223 min read
Feed Our Brains by Challenging Them
Feeding our brains is just as important as feeding our bodies. Of course the food we eat has a lot to do with the way our brain...
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Maria Scuor
May 5, 20221 min read
Happy Cinco de Mayo
I’m definitely one that thought the 5th of May was Mexico’s independence day, but with a little research I found out it commemorates the...
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Maria Scuor
May 2, 20222 min read
#GetReal Mental Health Week May 2 - May 8
Today starts the 71st annual Mental Health week in Canada which launched across our nation in 1951. In 1918 the Canadian Mental Health...
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Maria Scuor
May 1, 20222 min read
Football (Calcio) Italian Style
Sunday in Italy is all about calcio football (what we in North America call soccer). Go by any coffee shop or bar and you will see...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 30, 20224 min read
The Sights of Stresa and Italian Coffee Facts
This morning we got up at 7 am and went for an hour walk around town to start to get acclimatized. Even though it is a small town of...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 28, 20223 min read
13,879 Days
Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years just fly by and therefore it is time to reminisce about 13,879 days ago. That is the day...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 26, 20221 min read
Adventure Awaits....
Tomorrow Gianni and I get to spend a couple of months in a small lakeside town we fell in love with when we scoped the region for the...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 21, 20223 min read
Making our Earth Better for our Next Generation - Earth Day 2022
Today I reflect on the words of a song that was first recorded in 1977 but re-recorded by Whitney Houston in February of 1985. It truly...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 18, 20222 min read
Importance of Water to Our Bodies
However you drink your water, guidelines state we should be drinking six to eight 250 ml (8oz) glasses of water per day. There is...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 13, 20222 min read
"Fruit" Does a Body Good!
Did you know there are over 2,000 types of fruit around the world? I'm pretty sure I've not tried more than 50 types! I love vegetables...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 10, 20223 min read
April Celebrations
April has so many wonderful religious holidays that I thought I’d research and honour the ones I was able to find. Please note this is...
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Maria Scuor
Apr 4, 20223 min read
Know the Signs of Dementia and Alzheimer’s
Based on the World Health Organization there are more than 55 million people living with a form of dementia on planet earth, with nearly...
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