Mediterranean Me: Optimize Yourself, Optimize Your Life

FOREWORD I’m blessed to have lived in the Mediterranean for almost two decades, but I’m even more blessed to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, wherever I am. This “ Happily Ever Now” series is my love letter - not only to the Mediterranean - but to life in general.  I hope to help you escape a little and inspire the wanderlust that has kept me curious, energized, spirited, and engaged throughout my life. Travel opens your heart, your eyes, and your mind.  I also hope to inspire you to live your fullest, most authentic life, my “secret” to happiness and inner peace. I’ve lived life; that comes with its share of heartaches, but its “ heart-ups” as well.  I forever believe in fairytales, but the one where the “princess ” is her own “ heroine.” After a life of chasing “ Happily Ever After” with others, I found “ Happily Ever Now,” within myself. My fervent wish is for you to as well… ****** HAPPILY EVER NOW SICILIAN SEDUCTIONS Freedom ,  “La Dolce Vita” TABLE OF CO...

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                                           I Have Better Places to Go Than Out of My Mind Finding “Belonging” in A Faraway Land It was love at first sight. I fell fast. I fell furiously. As I tend to do. No exception here. The object of my new affection – her name is Turkey. It’s just as foreign, exotic, beautiful, and sensorily magnificent as I had imagined. I had come to heal my heartache from an abrupt and painful marital demise that had blind-sided me several months earlier.  At first, I had tried to “stay put” at the insistence of well-intentioned family and friends who deemed it best that I heal amongst loved ones in familiar surroundings. Their prescription for healing, however, was the exact opposite of mine.  When something deeply beckons me I heed the call, no matter how seemingly illogical it may seem. For whatever reason, Turkey had beckoned me and I don’t...