It's been 6 weeks since I left the U.S., and I've worked out at a British gym in Greenwich, London, and a French gym, in the suburbs of Paris. I'm going to share my personal observations regarding the differences between a French, a British, and an American gym. You can tell a lot about cultural habits, from the way people act in a Continue Reading
Serving with the Peace Corps in Lesotho
For years, I've been telling my friends that I would serve with the Peace Corps when my children were out of the house. It's something I started talking about ten years ago, and last week, I received the invitation to serve in Lesotho, a small country in Southern Africa. Now that I'm divorced, and my three sons are Continue Reading
Teach English Abroad with the Cert-TESOL
I've been studying like a crazy woman for the past 4 weeks in order to teach English abroad with the Cert-TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate. This is by no means an easy course. It's a level 5, comparable in difficulty to the second year of an undergraduate degree crammed into 4 weeks. Now you'll understand why I Continue Reading
Reinventing Myself in Mid-Life
I've become a student again at age 57, and quite frankly, it feels a little weird. I eat, sleep, and hang my wet laundry in one 8x12 room, but I accept this as a new challenge; part of reinventing myself in mid-life. After a thirty-six year--student to career woman to wife to mom and back to student gap--I discovered that unlike social Continue Reading
Discover Greek Culture
Thanks to travel bloggers, Rebecca Hall, Marissa Tejada and Elena Sergeeva, I was able to experience a unique tour with Discover Greek Culture, a new tour operator in Greece, that specializes in offering archaeological, gastronomic, historical and artistic tours, to groups of 2-15 people maximum. Their goal is to offer something more Continue Reading