I had such great intentions of writing in this space when we were in Europe earlier this year. What I did not count on was getting covid while we were in Athens, Greece. I was quite lucky during the pandemic to have only tested positice twice for covid, and both times my only symptom was…

Toulouse is the capital of the Occitanie region of France, a vast geographical area of the southwest that borders Spain and the Mediterranean Sea plus the French regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The city, called Tolosa, was known to the Romans, but there is evidence that it has been inhabited at least since…

We trained it to Toulouse yesterday for a few days, mainly to tour the Airbus factory on Saturday (David is a major aviation geek). Our high-end hotel allowed check-in before official check-in time—-for a €35 (around CA $55) fee. We have never experienced this before, and it really irritated me. It just felt greedy, since…

All of my nurse friends will recoil in horror when I say this, but on the plane from Brussels to Marseille yesterday, I turned to David and said, “In twenty-five years of air travel, the airlines have only once lost our luggage!” As the words escaped my mouth, I instantly regretted it. Nurses have a…

It has been so long since I wrote here that I actually forgot how to create a new post. So much for my January, 2020 promise to myself to maintain this blog and pretend to be a writer. In January, I had felt so hopeful about the year ahead, had felt so certain that big…