The fictional town of Palmer City, just outside Colorado Springs, features all of my favorite things from nearby and not-so-nearby places. If you read this month’s Throwback Thursday newsletter, you know how much it hurt for me to set a series in CO. (If you’re new here and would like …
Sleigh Bells Ring, Are Ya List’nin’? In this month’s Throwback Thursday email, I shared a photo of the gazebo my husband proposed to me in on the side of snowy mountain at Nordic Village in Jackson New Hampshire. Around the corner from the property is a gem called Nestlenook Farm. If …
My home church! St. Julie’s was and is an incredible place I miss terribly. When I return home to visit, all I have to do is set foot inside and I’m overcome with an overpowering sense of peace. My parents were married there, and it was where I completed the sacraments of Baptism, …
One of the coolest places in Orlando is the RDV Sportsplex. It was the original practice facility for the Orlando Magic and is home to the Orlando Solar Bears Hockey team. RDV isn’t just for the pros, though. All ages of athletes and hockey players practice and play there, including the University of Central Florida …
It’s already hot in Florida. Stifling, actually. Elsewhere in the US, record amounts of snow and low winter temps have others longing for the warmer air of spring. For me, it’s the cool crisp air I miss. The freshness that comes with the melting of the snow and the thawing …
New England stole a piece of my heart, and the coastal regions especially call to me when the steaming, landlocked heat of Orlando becomes unbearable. In those moments, I long for a cool ocean breeze on a chilly summer night, the sound of ocean waves lapping again rocks, the crispness …
“There is such a place as fairyland – but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize …
