My husband & I talked many times about visiting the Pentagon Memorial, but I just couldn’t do it. For three years, the benches stood, honoring those who perished on that awful day. Finally, on an overcast, drizzly Labor Day afternoon & then, on a quiet September 11th evening, I did it. I faced my fears…
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Hotel Review: the Inn at Camden Place; Camden, Maine
The Inn at Camden Place is a bit of a hybrid inn-boutique hotel. It’s a very basic inn, without all the amenities of a hotel or bed & breakfast, but still had a small, charming feeling. We enjoyed chatting with the inn keeper, Judy, but found that most of the other guests beat us in age by…
Restaurant Review: District; Portland, Maine
When we walked up to the front of District, we almost didn’t go in. The outside looks a bit dodgy, with few windows & a generally plain looking building – like the outside of a seedy bar; but boy am I glad we opened the front door, because what we found inside was a comfortable,…
Barbados: Good-Bye
I’ve started to write this post probably a hundred times since the mid-May phone conversation when my Dad, an American ex-pat living & working in Barbados for the past four years, told me he was moving back to the States. It seems like only yesterday that, in a similar phone conversation, he was asking me…
