Recent Lectures

In Honor of Notre Dame Cathedral: Memories from an American Girl in Paris

I’m dedicating today’s Throwback Thursday post to Notre Dame. As I sat hypnotized in front of the television on Monday watching her burn, it was as if someone had taken a match to a page of my own story. In flames, this place that had born witness to 850 years of the best and the worst of humanity, to the ravages of war and the triumphs of love, and to one freckly-faced American girl’s coming of age.

What to do in Puerto Corinto? Live the Traditions of Nicaragua!

Are you booked on a cruise scheduled to call in Nicaragua and wondering if it’s safe to leave the ship? We grappled with that same question. And while I’m often one to play the odds and throw caution to the wind in favor of an adventure – especially at a less common port like Puerto Corinto that I may not get to visit again – we considered the travel advisories and decided to compromise by booking an excursion through the ship. Join me as I “Live the Traditions of Nicaragua.”