When I used to daydream about all the beautiful places to travel and amazing places to see, my mind had not yet experienced an Asian culture.  It was like a color I had never seen and couldn’t even imagine.  In some ways, I feel like I finally have eyes to see. I have only been […]

I met Korean BBQ today.  I think we are in love.  Unfortunately, I think I met the best Korean BBQ place in Itaewon (or so most review sites say) so it’s either all down hill from here or I need to be gracious to all others?  Maple Leaf in Itaewon drew me in on the […]

Our new home city.  Seoul, South Korea.  After being here for two weeks and ONLY focusing on setting up house, we celebrated the completion by exploring one of the nearby neighborhoods.  I might have squealed with joy as we walked through the gate on post and entered ACTUAL Seoul (base feels like America to me) and […]

it may have taken me FOR-EV-ERRRRRR but I finally got to posting the final stop on that Scentsy cruise trip I tagged along with.  if you missed the french riviera or pisa & florence, go check them out.  [no one paid me or threatened me to say this]  if you have EVER considered trying to […]

day two of cruising found us in the tuscan region.  but to get to tuscany, we had to go through what our tour guide called “the ugliest city in italy”…la spezia.  funny because even though it was a very industrialized, military town…there was still something so beautiful about it.  had we not been on a […]

i had never been on a cruise.  i am not sure if i have been on a vacation without my kids and with only a friend…that wasn’t work related.  i almost didn’t know what to do with myself.  my dear friend, suzanne is a rockstar scentsy consultant and earned her way on to a free […]

i couldn’t figure out where that deep bass was coming from.  it sounded like the dougie.  it was a bunch of young, punk kids in my cul-de-sac, dancing in a circle and havin a grand ol time…and for a second i felt old for wondering what the heck they were doing.  but then i wanted […]