Of course March 17th is St. Patrick's Day and a little man running around trying to find a pot of gold is weird. But lets look at what...

We know February as the month of love and family because of Valentine’s and Family Days but there are a few other weird holidays I’m...

Scorri a basso per I'italiano Life in Arona is finally taking on some normalcy and with it comes the change in season as it would have at...

Scorri verso il basso per l'italiano Many of you know “HOPE” is a word I hold very dear to my heart. I (as well as my two daughters)...

I didn't sleep last night because I was thinking of you daddy, and how you impacted my life. Since I was a little girl we held a bond...

Instead of driving to Milano we decided to take the train from Stresa to Milano. It was the fast train with no stops in-between and we...

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...

June 2nd in Italy is the "Festa della Repubblica" (Italy's National Day) and today in Stresa it was impossible to find parking because...

L'italiano è appena sotto l'inglese in blu - Scusa si ci sono errori (Italian translations just under English in blue) As a boy, Gianni...

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....

I have my morning walk around 6:45 am when it is already bright out in Stresa but the sidewalks are bare as everyone is still asleep. ...

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...

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...

I’ve had three women mold my culinary world. Mamma, my mother, taught me at a young age how to cook for the family as a necessity...

In Indio this past week I’d walk and see streams of white following the planes, actually so many of them that it made the photos...

I’ve been taking medicinal marijuana for sleeping and pain the last three weeks and it has helped me get a little better sleep but the...

I’m off this week and wanted to take some re-energize time but can’t believe it has taken until hump day to get to my book. One thing I...

It was such a beautiful day in Ridge that I went for a long walk in the neighbourhood. The sun followed me and the warmth did my body...

Once again life with COVID is causing havoc all over the world. First COVID-19, then Delta and now Omicron is sending the world in a...