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European Adventure – Rome

Our travel to Rome involved an early-morning ferry ride to Naples, a bus ride to the train station, a train ride to the VERY bustling Rome train station, a short trek to find the correct city bus stop, and (finally) a ride on a crowded city bus that took a significant...

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European Adventure – Sorrento

We bid a sad arrivederci to Florence and embarked on a multi-train journey to Sorrento; which is just south of Naples, near the Almafi coast.  For the most part, our train travel in Italy was comfortable and relatively easy to navigate.  However the little local train...

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European Adventure – Florence

My biggest regret of our trip is that we didn’t spend longer in Florence.  Florence is a beautiful treasure trove of history and art. Two days was not enough. We arrived in Florence mid-afternoon, tired and hungry. We stayed in a small hotel-like B&B; after splurging...

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European Adventure – Vernazza Italy

We bid France adieu as we boarded an early morning train from Nice on the first leg of our trip to Vernazza, in Cinque Terre, Italy.   The train was initially VERY crowded, but fortunately, most of the passengers were simply on their way to work in Monocco.  I...

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 Eating Disorders Suck

See something, Say something, Do something

When I started this blog in 2014, I rarely opined on political matters. As a mother of a daughter in recovery from anorexia. I had some foggy notion that sharing my story might help some other mom, dad, daughter or son. While I will never know if anyone else benefited...

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Recognition

It wasn't the woman's thinness, or her choice of a small salad that gave her away.  It was HOW she was eating, or rather not eating: she poked aggressively at her salad dozens of times, spreading its contents around and around before raising a tiny forkful to her...

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