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Garden Hill
It seems like ages ago when my kids and I spent a week in Hong Kong. We stayed next to Garden Hill, an area I knew because of the eponymous Garden Bakery. The bakery building is gorgeous. One evening...
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Blog Tour–His Only Wife
I am so honored to take part of Peace Adzo Medie’s blog tour for her debut novel, His Only Wife. If you are looking for an engaging novel that never slows down, it’s perfect. Afi is a young woman from...
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Staying occupied during COVID
Since COVID hit in March (or when we became aware of it in the US), we’ve stayed home and have not traveled more than 20 miles from home, usually to pick up food at a restaurant. But other than that,...
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Thanksgiving in years past
Thanksgiving in the US this year is certainly different from those of years past and I have a feeling the whole world is watching. Will Americans further propel the numbers of COVID cases and continue...
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Blog Tour–Big Girl Small Town
I’m excited to be a part of Michelle Gallen’s blog tour for her debut novel, Big Girl Small Town. The book takes place in a small town in Northern Ireland after the Troubles. I’ve always been...
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Christmas in Hong Kong long ago
This is the first year in many that I haven’t traveled to Hong Kong. After moving back to the US in 1998 (not my choice), I spent 14 years away, always wondering if I would ever come back. Money and...
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A tour of Hong Kong, part one
The travel industry has been hit hard all around the world. This pandemic seems like it will never end. Yet some tour companies have come up with creative ways to stay afloat until things pick up...
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My top 10 books of the 1st year of lockdown
It’s been about a year since I’ve been sheltering in place, some of it by order from the government and most by choice. In a year of not seeing friends or family beyond my four walls (is it just me,...
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Mexico City, 1982
Since I’m not traveling these days/years, I’ve been thinking about trips I’d like to take when it’s safe again and Mexico City always comes to mind. It was my first trip out of the US (that I recall)...
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Travels with my brother
Do you remember the first time you felt at home in a new place? For me it was when my parents visited me in college in Baltimore, maybe my sophomore year. Weeks beforehand, I planned our every hour....
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