Posts by Kimberly Sullivan
Context reading
You know the term context drinking, don’t you? Ever noticed how that bottle of wine you share on a sun-drenched table perched on the cobblestone square of a charming little town in Tuscany or Provence tastes ever so much better than the same bottle you bring back home to drink in Peoria? True, isn’t it?…
Read MoreSnow Day in Rome!
Today – Monday, 6 February 2012 – is actually only the second official Snow Day in history for Roman schoolchildren. The first was way back on Friday, 3 February 2012. Yes, Roman children had the unusual pleasure of listening to the Mayor of Rome declare a long weekend due to snow. Snow rarely falls on…
Read MoreIt takes a village to write a book
Yes, yes, we all know the old mantra that writing is a lonely profession. But is reviewing and editing lonely, too? Does it have to be? I’m pretty new to this, and I was slogging along on my own, but I recently joined a writing group in my city. I had seen an announcement for…
Read MoreMatera Women’s Fiction Festival
This past September, I signed up for my first writer’s conference. It was the easiest decision to make once I discovered the destination – the beautiful city of Matera, in Italy’s southern region of Basilicata. I had been to Matera over a decade ago, with my Italian husband who looked at me oddly when I…
Read MoreSurviving exotic meltdowns: Tantrums on the road… and in the sky… and on the sea
Thinking twice about bringing those little bundles-of-joy on your next exotic get-away? I wrote about some of our more ‘joyful’ family moments on-the-road on the excellent family travel web site, Travel Savvy Mom. www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/surviving-exotic-meltdowns
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