What is Love?

October 18, 2006

I’ve been thinking about love. It’s the topic of thousands of songs. Love is something that everyone wants. We have at least 1001 ideas of what love is. Everyone has different beliefs and experiences about love. What is love to you? How do you know when you’re in a state of love? How do you “get” love? How do you “give” love? Let’s talk more about this thing called love.

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The Rest of Your Life is Still Unwritten

October 11, 2006

We just returned from a 12 day trip to Italy. For almost two weeks, it was nice to cut off cell phones, the Internet, e-mail and television except for a few minutes of CNN news. We thoroughly enjoyed the visit and appreciated the diversity of the Italian culture. In particular, it was fun to dine in places where we were the only people inside who weren’t Italian. The menus weren’t in English so we took some good guesses at what to order and were successful. Many restaurants — pizza places, trattorias, osterias and ristorantes — do have their menus in Italian and English. We just figured that the ones that didn’t might be more authentic. I don’t know if you can get a bad meal in Italy. We certainly didn’t have any.

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