History, Real Life, and Faith
Agrigento, Sicily is the closest I’ve come to seeing Greek ruins. Because Greek temples are there! We visited on a glorious day in March when the sky was blue to infinity, the better to show off the burnt sienna colors of the columns. Amazing. Our mouths hung open looking at columns that have stood for a very long time. We…
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How to walk to the top of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
How do you make death easier on the kids? A friend commented on my last post that her death was going to be hard on her kids because she had so many things to go through. It reminded me that my mom called when she was sixty to say she and my father had been putting their affairs in order, “just…
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How do you close down the home when a loved one dies? It’s a minefield of emotions, sorting, negotiating, and hard work. I’ve done it four times, now, and have five suggestions on how to get through the arduous task of closing down the life of someone you love. 5 Tips on How to Close Down a Home This assumes…
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Traveler’s Tales: IWM I’ve been after my husband to take me to London’s Imperial War Museum (IMW) since last July when its World War I exhibit reopened. We’d visited the exhibit in 2009 and I well remembered it, particularly the intense “as if you were there” trench exhibit. Since I spent the last two years writing about WWI, this seemed a terrific time to…
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Like many Americans, our family is made up of immigrants. I’m a first generation American on my mother’s side of the family. My father’s? Oh, twelfth? My husband is a second generation American on his father’s side. His mother’s? Oh, thirteenth? But like many immigrant families, our families have remained in touch with folks in the old world and have…
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