In case you missed it, here's my recent travel story for the Albany Times Union. One weekend, two great American cities:
As the lazy days of summer wind ...
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Tonight I had my Thomas Merton Fourth & Walnut moment. I watched this crowd dancing in the plaza on Atwells in Providence while we ate dinner, and all I ...
Thanks to a perfect storm of vacation, childcare, and Marriott reward points, Dennis and I turned this Easter weekend into an early 20th anniversary ...
Yesterday we spent the day -- two days, really -- wandering around the city of Assisi. Today we're going to venture outside the city walls. On our second day in ...
To tide you over until I can pull all the Assisi photos together for posts on Monday and Tuesday, here are some shots of the many wonderful beverages you'll ...
When I put Siena on our pilgrimage itinerary, it was mainly because I wanted to visit the church where St. Catherine of Siena's head rests. (The rest of her ...
I had waited to go to Florence for a long time, since I took an art history class in college, since I read E.M. Forster's A Room with a View and then fell ...
It's been almost three weeks since I returned from Italy, and I still haven't managed to write any posts about the experience or trade my Euro for U.S. ...
It’s easy to romanticize the idea of a pilgrimage, to turn it into something larger than life, something we think we can experience only when have the money, ...
Five weeks from today, our Italy: A Feast for Body and Soul pilgrimage will depart from JFK airport bound for Rome. The 40 of us will spend 13 days making our ...
In honor of the Feast of St. Benedict, I thought I would re-post my Times Union story on my trip to the Monastery of St. Benedict in Subiaco, Italy, four years ...
Dennis and I decided we wanted a romantic night away from home, but with three kids and busy schedules, we didn't see how that was going to happen any time ...
Hey, gang. What a beautiful week to be from New York's Capital Region. No, seriously, I'm not kidding about that. For once. These days I am loving my adopted ...
Thanks to the thoughtfulness of my husband and the wonder of iMessage (free texts between Apple devices), I have been traipsing around Rome for the past few ...
For the past few years, whenever we would go to Sunday Mass at Historic St. Mary's in downtown Albany (The church is a destination in itself, if you've never ...
I realized yesterday that I'm a bit like a homing pigeon when it comes to visiting New York. No matter where I am in Manhattan, I always end up back at St. ...
So you're going to Italy and you want to know how to order a coffee. Okay, well, first things first. If you ask for coffee, "un caffé," you will get an ...
One year from now we will be just back from the most amazing pilgrimage, a 13-day food and faith tour of Italy that will take us from Montecatini, Florence, ...
So much happens on silent retreat, even though nothing at all seems to be happening. No talking, no reading, no writing, no casual eye contact. Doesn't sound ...
Dear Fellow Adventurer,
For most of my adult life, I dreamed of going to Italy. I wanted to pray in St. Peter’s Basilica. I wanted to know the country of my ...