Author: jessica

Living

No Family without Meatballs

Food is not just sustenance for Italians. It is a passion and a way of life. “Eat to live” is not a thing. There was a TV commercial that I saw this week that really struck me. A mom was saying that she couldn’t make meatballs without the right sauce, and without meatballs, there would […]

Musings

Halfway Home

Sometime in the past few weeks, we hit the halfway point of our year-long sabbatical. We just bought our tickets to go home to LA at the end of July 2017, so it is official. Josh is getting morose and saying that we are already on the downhill slope. I can feel a bit of […]

Norway, Travel

Catching the Northern Lights

The real mission of our Norwegian trip was to see the Northern Lights. But, there is no way to guarantee that we would. That is why all the websites talk about “chasing the lights”, to romanticize the notion that one could travel a very long time to see absolutely nothing.  Our best chance was to […]