By Ken Gord: I’ve been in Venice for more that two months now. Since May 4 the city opened up a lot more; we can now go to a café or rest...

By Ken Gord: I arrived in Venice, Italy, on March 12, three days after the country-wide lockdown was put into effect. At Marco Polo Airpo...

By Kim Carr: Click here to start at the beginning of Kim Carr's "Beyond the Farm Gates" series. By the time my friend Barb and I pulled b...

By Kim Carr: Why not start from the very beginning? Read the first installments of Kim Carr's Beyond the Farm series here. As my friend B...

By Ippolita Douglas Scotti: It’s very chilly in Florence; time for winter vegetables. This morning at the farmer’s market, there were bea...

By Kim Carr: Catch up with Part 1 of the series here! I was on my third full day of vacation when my friend Barb and I packed a cooler wi...

By Ippolita Douglas Scotti: I seem to be on a a strong cauliflower kick these cold days here in Florence. Maybe that is because this deli...

By Kim Carr: For a Mid-Missouri farm girl, it’s hard to believe that this time last week, I was trying to catch my breath as I attempted ...

By Ippolita Douglas Scotti: It's that time again—even here in Italy where Halloween has finally taken root. Even though this yearly celeb...

By Ippolita Douglas Scotti: If you're lucky enough to travel to Italy in October, you are in for a treat. The tourists have scuttled back...

By Elizabeth Gracen: I’m just going to say it: The Hollywood Bowl is the quintessential La La Land experience. Some might argue that ther...

By Tina Albo: I was driving down the river valley this morning on my way to work, and I happened to catch a glimpse of our downtown skyli...

By Tina Albo: In my travels, I have met many interesting people and learned quite a bit from these encounters. However, an amusing confus...

By Brandon Alter: Lucky for me, my life has been full of travel these last few months, and it doesn’t look like it’ll be stopping any tim...

By Jane E Drichta: It's the Yezidi New Year this week, and people are spending the week getting ready. It is the largest holiday of the y...

by Jane E Drichta: One of the most interesting things about my job is the places I get to do it in. Global public health/humanitarian wor...

by Ippolita Douglas Scotti: The Birth of Venus and La Primavera (the Allegory of the Spring) by Sandro Botticelli, masterpieces of the Uf...

by Ippolita Douglas Scotti: The Florentine steak is one of the most excellent dishes of Tuscan cuisine. It consists of a specific cut of ...

by Elizabeth Gracen: I’m sitting in my outdoor painting studio, smoking a big fat Cuban Cohiba cigar (really, I am) at the end of 2018 in...

by Darcy Liddell: Okay, it's Spider Season back here at the ranch in Les Trois-Moutiers, and I spent a lot of time decorating the kitche...