by Daisy Rosales | Jun 4, 2019 | Europe, France
Paris, city of light. Paris, city of love. Paris, home to the world’s favorite writers, designers and artists. Paris, the city we promised each other to visit once every five years to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We all (want to) have a Paris story. But...
by Daisy Rosales | Jan 11, 2019 | Argentina, Latin America
“It’s like Europe!” If you’ve heard someone say this about Buenos Aires, they’re not entirely wrong. There are beautiful buildings modeled after Paris. There are broad avenues, stunning gardens, and as colonial history would have it, many...
by Daisy Rosales | Sep 24, 2017 | Asia, Japan
Autumn in Kyoto is something else. Bursts of color occupy the stretch between earth and sky, spreading wide at the tops of trees, trickling down in fallen leaves, crunching beneath your feet. Having lived in New England, my expectations weren’t low. But there...
by Daisy Rosales | Feb 6, 2017 | Food & Drink, simplify
My husband and I are foodies. We’re also enthusiastic home chefs. We own too many cookbooks and more appliances than the average person. Our entire wedding registry is mostly in the form of a kitchen tool. And we use all of it. But here’s the thing–...
by Daisy Rosales | Nov 21, 2016 | People, Travel
As I write this, I’m sitting at the Los Angeles Airport awaiting to board our flight to Osaka, Japan. Osaka is no small town, but our final destination is Kyoto. Oh, Kyoto… how we love thee. A gaggle of young Japanese college students gather around us....