It began with sunshine and smiles as my family found each other in the small confines of the airport in Florence and ended with shouts and threats seven days later in the same airport in the dark of 5am—when our flight to Frankfurt was cancelled. The shouting and shoving did not come from me because I was so groggy and disoriented I could hardly process the fact that after a ... Read More...
Arrivederci for Now
Happy Friday, readers! No review today because by noon I will be aboard a plane heading to Italy. Yes, the long awaited family vacation has arrived! For the next seven days I’ll be traipsing around Florence, Cortona, and Siena. Probably even seeing gorgeous landscapes like the one above. What a lucky lady I am. Due to the crowds this time of year I won’t be taking in any of ... Read More...
The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty
Plenty of people go on vacation to lose themselves but probably not in the way of the narrator in Vendela Vida’s novel The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She lands in Morocco and midway through the check-in process at her hotel realizes her backpack has been stolen, almost out of her hands. It contains every piece of ID she has, her wallet, new camera and her laptop. Despite the ... Read More...
Heads in Beds
Jacob Tomsky graduated from college with a degree in philosophy and no idea what he wanted to do. It is summer in New Orleans and before jumping a career and all that entails he decides to take a job at a new hotel as a valet—to test the working waters. With his personable nature and quick mind, Tomsky rapidly moves from valet to the underworld of housekeeping management while ... Read More...
