by Amy Angelilli | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog
“We’re going to be in Colombia for ten weeks this summer, so why don’t you visit?” suggested my friend, Clayton, over pints at a Yorkshire pub during Memorial Day weekend. Well that would be impossible. It was practically summer already. We had blown the budget on...
by Amy Angelilli | Aug 9, 2014 | Blog
“To be human is to have problems.” – Lauren Huffman, Life of Yes! Sleepaway Camp, Somewhere Magical, Wisconsin ***** I arrived at the designated meeting spot in Chicago not knowing: Where I was going. With whom I was going. What I was to be doing once I got...
by Amy Angelilli | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog
“I sleep in old beds.” And with that, World Domination Summit (WDS) 2014 was off and running. WDS is not an extreme political rally or a kinky sex fest as some people in my orbit thought. According to the website, “WDS is a gathering of creative, interesting people...
by Amy Angelilli | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog
“How was camp?” I keep getting this question over and over. And, that’s the question I keep struggling to answer over and over. The reason is simple, really. A transformational experience can’t be summed up in a statement such as, “It was fun.” And the truth is that...
by Amy Angelilli | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog
To kick off summer 2014, my husband and I have an outrageous bill from Avis Car Rental that we picked up as a souvenir from our self guided driving tour of England. This is not to say that we don’t have other souvenirs that are more pleasant such as vintage clothing,...