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21 Dec Simpson Featured Artist at Ah Haa New Year’s Gala
Nature-inspired jewelry that will rock your world. Now on display at Ah Haa Raise your hand if you’ve ever picked up a stone or pebble while working along a beach or a path. I thought so. Hard to resist those beautiful shapes and seductive textures....
08 Jul Ah Haa: “Lights, Camera, Auction”
The Ah Haa School for the Arts 22nd annual art auction, “The Art of Film,” takes place Friday, July 18. Buy your ticket now. Ah Haa’s auction, the backstory: In his book, “The Power of Film,” author Colin McGinn explores the way the silver screen...
10 Nov TIO Thailand: North for Three Days
Chiang Dao: Sometimes it’s not about turning caca into chocolate. Sometimes the caca is the chocolate – or in this case, the paper. Elephants consume, on average, 500 pounds of plant food and 42 gallons of water. Waste not. Want not. Heading north from Chiang...
28 Oct TIO ITALY: RETURNING TO TURIN
We returned. Most vagabonds never get there. And that’s a miss. Turin (or Torino in Italian) is a very interesting town in the northern Piedmont region, Italy’s first capital (in 1861) and home to Italy’s royal family, the House of Savoy. Our circuitous route to...
11 Oct TIO FRANCE: HOTEL LA DEVINIERE & ST JEAN- DE-LUZ
I put out a request for suggestions for a hotel and base of operations to explore the Basque region of France – bien sur, pleine de charme – and the drums responded loud and clear: La Deviniere in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. La Deviniere also happens to be...
01 Sep HAVE A BALL IF YOU VOLUNTEER
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back,” Maya Angelou When the global economic meltdown hit in 2008, trickle down took on a whole new meaning. The crisis left...