Category: <span>Wanderings and Travel</span>

“‘I’m glad it’s wick!’ she cried out in her whisper.  ‘I want them all to be wick.  Let us go round the garden and count how many wick ones there…

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Geraniums nodded in wrought iron window boxes.  High heels tapped on cobblestones.  Chocolate shavings curled atop decadent desserts.  A gold-painted mime struck a pose and froze for ten, twenty, thirty,…

Wanderings and Travel

Quick stops are the key.  Run in, run out.  Quick.  Before the sippy cup goes flying or the stroller harness gets too tight or the credit card is given away…

Wanderings and Travel

Summer has certainly sat down hard on Pittsburgh.  My local weather forecast, delivered at 7am this morning by an overly chipper forecaster whose pregnant belly blotted out half of the…

Wanderings and Travel

My small town of Ben Avon was perfect…almost.  Despite being just miles from downtown Pittsburgh, our little Brigadoon pops up under an umbrella of towering shade trees with sidewalks perfect…

Wanderings and Travel

I just don’t get cupcakes.  I know they’re the latest boutique food craze and have been for some years.  But I just don’t get it.  Cake does not rank high…

Wanderings and Travel