Where the Gulf Meets Understanding: An Afternoon with Whitman at the Water’s Edge
Thoughts on As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass Today, I began…
Tag: travel
When Pages Become Passports: Traveling Tuscany Through Mystery and Meals
More often than not, a book settles into my hands not because I expect it to become a classic, but…
Rediscovering Hawthorne in Rome: First Impressions of The Marble Faun
While currently reading The Iliad, I am also reading another older text as I prepare for sleep at night. Currently,…
Turning Pages Before the Journey
As I prepare for my upcoming trip to Italy, with Venice high on my list of must-see places, I find…
Beyond Bucket Lists: Travel Redefined
As I’ve journeyed along what I like to call my “retirement path,” my understanding of travel has quietly transformed. With…
Surprised by The Penelopiad
I recently picked up The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood—a modern retelling of The Odyssey—without ever having read the original Homer…
From the Mediterranean with Warmth
OneTrueSentence – If beauty is designed to bring pleasure to our mind and senses, then sahlab is a beautiful beverage.…
Oh, I forgot….
OneTrueSentence — I have found that to focus on the experience of drink and food, have awakened a sensory engagement…
Who me? An influencer? They said I was….
OneTrueSentence – Conversations with others is where we begin to see our similarities often far outweigh our differences. So, if…
The Reality of Dreams
I recently came across a quote from an author I was not familiar with. The quote caught my attention in…