by kpalana | Sep 22, 2013 | Blog
Ask any parent of small children if they had a relaxing weekend and then look and see if they don’t twitch just slightly. You’re just seeing the car crash in their brains between the memories of weekends they USED to have versus the ones they are...
by kpalana | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog
Creepily-dressed clowns appearing unexpectedly in public just can’t catch a break anymore. The Atlantic Wire Online on September 15th reports: The poor residents of Northampton, England are living in a nightmare scenario straight out of a Stephen King novel...
by kpalana | Sep 17, 2013 | Blog
“Will someone shut that kid up?!!” My husband says it was “Shut that f*cking kid up!” but that’s not how I remember it. We’re on an AlItalia Flight from Boston to Rome. Despite months of planning in advance and multiple calls to the airline and fruitless...
by kpalana | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog
If you were to ask me whether I’d prefer to be the age I am now (37) or eighteen again, I would choose thirty seven over and over hands down. For many reasons, It’s just so much nicer being me now than the me full of insecurities and inner turmoil starting...
by kpalana | Sep 5, 2013 | Blog
Here’s a post from my old blog dated October 20, 2006 a few months after I moved to Rome. Walking to work in the morning still remains one of the highlights of my day. _________ Michael was teasing me on the phone last night that because I am giving nicknames to...