Purposefully Quiet Travel
Have you seen the pictures of miles and miles of lavender fields in Provence? It's purple for as far as the eye can see and has been one of those bucket list experiences that I hope to experience in my life. The prospect of going that far to hassle with a crowd of people trying to experience the ...
Oof! You may have noticed that there was a two week stretch this month where I didn't publish anything, and that my posts weren't going up on the same days I usually set them.That's because my husband and I bought our first home! We looked at about 25 homes in one weekend before we found the ...
When I got more into wine and decided to take the WSET Level 1 test, I realized that I needed to diversify my wine cellar. By cellar, I mean the twelve bottle wine holder that sat in my apartment kitchen. I didn't really try too many wines that were out of my comfort zone. There were so many wine ...
Call me fickle, but I often struggle to finish a whole glass of wine. How can that be? I'm a WSET certified sommelier, but I also eat and drink almost everything. While some people only like analog watches, only eat sushi or only drink bubbly prosecco, I'm someone who likes to try a little bit of ...
One of my favorite gifts to give my loved ones is the gift of travel. My husband had never left the country before I dragged him to the Azores, and that truly opened his eyes to the beauty of the globe. For a birthday a few years ago, my brother and I took my mom to Montreal. ...
Midwesterners know that summer means Michigan. With over 3,000 miles of coastline, there is plenty to do by land and by sea, er...lake. While there is so much to love about the proximity of Southwest Michigan, I also like the quieter, slower, harder to get to places of the state. Last year, my mom ...
