“English? Spanish?” the priest asked the line of us standing in front of him at the altar. He had just finished the evening pilgrim mass and had invited all the pilgrims to stand before him. Except I wasn’t a pilgrim. I was in Logroño, Spain to visit my dear friend Chris Slater. He was volunteering…
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RenaissanceRebecca – Changes Ahead
Hello Renaissance Rebecca Subscribers and Friends– You may have noticed that I haven’t posted on this blog since Nov 22, 2024. This is because I’m working on something new and am writing on a different platform once per week. I want to keep reading your stuff–how do I sign up? What’s this new thing you’re…
The Joys of Living in Asheville
As I turned a corner in the grocery store, I saw a gentleman standing beside a table of wines. In the second it took for me to register what was happening, he asked, “Would you like to try some wine?” Oh – that’s right, I thought, I now live in a state that sells wine in…
Another Cinque Terre Tale
“This is ridiculous,” I called down to Scott, thirty feet below me on a trail of our own making. “This is the kind of stuff you hear about on Dateline NBC.” With that, he and I started to create the opening monologue of the program that would tell our tale and subsequent demise. It was…
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