by Kristina | Oct 15, 2025 | Advice, Travel
I survived a 4-week trip to Sicily with an 8-month old and 2.5 year old (and a husband). It went so well, we took another month-long trip to southeast Spain a year later. As I’m writing this, we’re almost-thriving on a three week sojourn to southern Italy...
by Kristina | Aug 20, 2020 | Advice, Travel
You snap the tab at the corner and peel back the cover of your bite-sized packet of Nutella. Its nutty, chocolatey goodness instantly coats the inside of your nostrils. Picking up the knife, you gingerly paint the perfect piece of toast in a fine layer of your...
by Kristina | Mar 28, 2019 | Advice, Travel
The shrieking outbursts are so loud you need heavy-grade ear protection to walk down the street. People had warned me the dogs were loud, but I was woefully underprepared for the volume of their exuberance. Standing in the staging area at the 2019 Iditarod, watching...
by Kristina | Jan 3, 2019 | Life, Travel
We’ve been traveling for a day and a half – 36 hours on planes and in airports and on trains in airports. Fitting my swollen feet back into my shoes after the 14 hour flight, one of three to travel nearly 6,000 miles, is a herculean effort. When the cab...
by Kristina | Mar 24, 2018 | Life, Travel
We emerge from a short walk through the tropical forest to aquamarine waters lapping against miles of pristine beach. We look left and right and there’s not a soul in sight. The fresh breeze smells like summer, filling our lungs with salty air and our faces with...
by Kristina | Oct 26, 2017 | Advice, Lists, Travel
I’ve been having a week, and it’s only Wednesday. Maybe it’s the change in weather, maybe it’s the dread I’m feeling at having to avoid pounds of Halloween candy in the next few weeks (a task at which, no doubt, I will fail), or maybe...
