What I took away from 2017

2017! What can we say about the year? For starters, we can all agree that it was a year unlike anything we've witnessed in a long, long time. Then we had the usual breakups, and a number of celebrities left us as it happens every year. But by far the biggest news was Hurricanes Harvey and Maria and the devastation they caused both here and in the Caribbean. We were all touched in one way or another by its effects. We all found out that life can change in the blink of an eye, in this case the eye of a hurricane that roared through the center of Puerto Rico obliterating everything in its path.

On a personal level, I was blessed in many ways. I wrote one book which is on the way to the publisher, and I'm working on two more books, one of which came to me as a result of my last trip to France. I am extremely grateful to God that I got to celebrate another year in the company of my three beautiful girls and I got the gift of a lifetime--a ten-day river cruise up and down the Gargonne in the wine country of Bordeaux. This will definitely go down in my book as the most enjoyable vacation/trip  I have ever received.

Below are some pictures of Cristina's and my trip through Bordeaux.

strolling thru cellars