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In blogging for the last 4 years, I’ve written about many different topics, but one theme that has remained constant has been my focus of sharing about how our family is discovering the beauty in difference and choosing to celebrate the incredible beauty...

It was morning, a long time ago. I’d just moved to the Georgia Mountains during a down pour the night before and I felt like road kill. To be honest, despite its beauty, I was not happy about this place being my new home. I’d recently given birth to...

Baroque and Beyond - Modica, Italy Modica, Italy Well, folks, this has been a reasonably relaxed week with only one "long distance" day trip but with a number of closer to home excursions. Syracuse One cannot talk about Syracuse, without talking...

John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China involves an American hero treading into a mysterious, non-Western world where he feels like an “outsider.”  That world, in this case, is not literally another planet, but rather the mystical and dangerous...

Name of the race: T-Mobile Newport Liberty Half Marathon Where: Newport, Jersey City, New Jersey Date: Sept 20, 2015 Time: 8:30 am Distance: 13.1 miles Terrain: Flat road race Entry free: $47 – until August 13 $50 – August 14 through September...