A Massachusetts Getaway: August, 2023 After spending 12 summers in France, we'd forgotten how hard Charleston summers are. And this one was a real doozy: extreme heat & wilting humidity, starting July 4 & ending (we hope!) with Hurricane Idalia, August 30. We have vowed to be somewhere else for a good part of next summer! After our lovely week in Brevard in July, we were eagerly awaiting our Massachusetts week, August 7-14. It was a good choice! We had...

It's almost 2 weeks since my husband & I have returned from Morocco, & I'm still processing the memories from this amazingly enchanting country. I should start by saying that I've been working with children & adults in an art museum for over 20 years. And because it's not been easy to squeeze my immense collage of visual images of Morocco into any kind of cohesive categories, I will go back to the Elements of ART to try to explain my concept of Morocc...

The Magical Introduction to Morocco from the books we read before & during our Moroccan trip. Over the years, Les & I have been so lucky with travel! After Les joined an international group of Certified Public Accountants in the late 1990s, we traveled all over the globe, hosted in many different countries by members who became good friends. We sang folk songs on a Swedish Archipelago boat tour, rode camels & visited the Valley of the Kings in Egypt,...

It was quite a summer, on our Villevieille terrace. We spent our usual 3 months,b ut we found that half-way through the summer, we both came to the realization that the novelty of our life here was wearing off. Basically, we felt like we'd spent the first month replacing or fixing way too much stuff. And "the summer of malfunctions" continued all the way through our final week. Nothing horrible happened, thank goodness. It was just a continual series o...

Since spending our last 10 summers in southern France, Les & I have been immersed in the Roman world. It's all around us, especially here in Villevieille. We can walk to an archeologically reconstructed Roman house ruin in 7 minutes. Our house, & the houses around us, are built in a basic Roman style, but without the atrium. Within 25 miles, in Roman Nîmes, the City of Emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD), we can enter the arena (c 100 AD), or go to a mus...