Allowing space for our emotions to be explored is very powerful. Understanding why we are sad or happy, why we are stressed or calm,...

Today's mindful moment comes from a wet bench I'm sitting on watching the lake in Stresa. For the first time we had an inside day...

June 2nd in Italy is the "Festa della Repubblica" (Italy's National Day) and today in Stresa it was impossible to find parking because...

We spent an afternoon in Höri a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. This small town of about...

We spent a weekend visiting Gianni's sister Nadja and family in Bülach a small town in the municipality of Zürich, Switzerland. Well six...

Our daughter Crystal and her fiancé Chris live in Arona which sits on the southern end of Lago Maggiore. Like Stresa, the lake and...

Having been in Stresa, Italy the past four weeks we have been literally forced to slow down because life is so much different than Canada....

I have my morning walk around 6:45 am when it is already bright out in Stresa but the sidewalks are bare as everyone is still asleep. ...

Serves: 12 I used to make this simple cheat cake (I use a box cake mix) when Steven was young as he loved the chocolate and whip cream. ...

Pretty much every town has a market that rolls into town the same day in the week. This means shutting down roads to cars and you are...

Living in Italy has made us slow down in every way as life here is about enjoying every moment. Workers actually walk away from work and...

Friday the 13th is considered lucky in Italy but I think we brought some of our Canadian juju because yesterday a drive that should have...

Serves: 4 Ossobuco translates to “hole of bone” and is a Milanese specialty. Therefore, when near Milano, I had to make this recipe...

Serves: 24 My grandson wanted a donut cake for his birthday but because it was his champagne birthday, he got a champagne hockey stick...

This is the first year I don't get to hug and kiss my mother for Mother's day and it brings sadness to my heart. Thankfully I have many...

I’m definitely one that thought the 5th of May was Mexico’s independence day, but with a little research I found out it commemorates the...

This morning we got up at 7 am and went for an hour walk around town to start to get acclimatized. Even though it is a small town of...

Exhausted from our travel day we had a great sleep at the hotel and got up at 7am and went for a 40 minute walk around the little town of...

Tomorrow Gianni and I get to spend a couple of months in a small lakeside town we fell in love with when we scoped the region for the...

Today I reflect on the words of a song that was first recorded in 1977 but re-recorded by Whitney Houston in February of 1985. It truly...