Death by Taxi Driver

About the time most of you read this, we’ll be on a plane back for the United States.  Forgive any typos and misspelling because I’m in a hurry to make sure I get this posted! Where did we leave off?  Oh, yeah, right before we pilgrimmed to Cascia.  St. Rita hums – that’s the best [...]

Death by Taxi Driver

Castles and Living with Boys

Isn’t there some sort of law that nobody should have to live in hotel rooms with boys?  I’ve somewhat insulated myself from my sons’ messiness with a big house, confining the limits of leaving socks draped over chairs and boxers under chairs to their own rooms. Living in a hotel room with them?  Eh, not [...]

Castles and Living with Boys

MDCI — Round 1

After reading Marina’s review and Ina’s review of MDCI perfumes, we were so dismayed when we thought these would be so exclusive and so expensive, only Paris Hilton could afford them. Then the elegantly charming Claude Marchal’s explanation that these perfumes will be accessible cheered us right up. Being the inquisitive and acquisitive rich mafioso’s [...]

MDCI — Round 1

News Flash: Teenagers Need Supervision

Staying Home for the Teen Years (washingtonpost.com) This is all I’ve learned about teenagers, having been a really bad one and having one son that’s 16 and the other about to turn 13: 1. Some teenagers have trouble, some don’t. 2. The teenagers in trouble don’t always correlate to bad homes, bad parenting, bad situations, [...]

News Flash: Teenagers Need Supervision