
If you like to cook/bake with wine, olive oil & sambuca - this is the dessert for you!
Hard to believe, really, but this month marks the tenth anniversary of my first major solo venture abroad. It was the year 2000. Not many months earlier I had finally finished twenty-one years of formal schooling.
As February is Black History Month in the United States, we at ProjectExplorer.org encourage everyone to learn more about his or her own history. Only then can we truly appreciate how the journey of black citizens worldwide have shaped each of us individually, no matter what our race may be.

Before heading out for our final full day in Sydney, Bob and I debated how to spend our short remaining time. I suggested the New South Wales Art Gallery, the Australian Museum, St. Andrews' Cathedral, the Sydney Aquarium, and the Sydney Tower. I marked these on a map – in the order that made the most sense. Bob vetoed the museum, art gallery, and aquarium.
“But, that only leaves us the Tower and St. Andrews. We'll be done in no time,” I protested.
A friend once mocked me with the caustic observation that: “We’re going to rename you Paciencia [patience].” The friend, my husband and I had returned to Seville after an afternoon in the countryside to find that the radiator in the car we had borrowed from my in-laws was hemorrhaging coolant.