It's summertime in the Northeast of United States! It's a precious time for us here... For the ones who don't know we have a long and cold winter and summer months are hot and short, and with that comes a great amount of life and energy. It's time for fun, for exploring the outdoors, for longer nights, and lots of water splash! We recently came back from our summer vacation packed with all that! We traveled for 12 days (BTW, with our cat and parakeet in the back seat), visi

This post is about the process of discovering your personal style and aesthetics, including my own. Lately I became very anxious to share my own aesthetics with the world. It feels like a freshly baked cake have came out of the oven, and it needs to be served. It took me a few years to develop my personal aesthetics. It has been a process for many years through thousands of observations and studies. Not that it's completely developed and done. I am sure it will never stop

Mr. Gross and I have been talking about moving to someplace else to build a "bella vita" retirement life. But we are not moving anywhere until we visit and taste a bit of some places... from our bucket list. This year we visited two locations so far... In March we headed down to the South for a week. The experience was fabulous! The food completely seduced my palate! The architecture and old world charm fulfilled my visual aesthetics, for sure. The people are really warm

Happy New Year! How wonderful it is to be reminded once a year (at least) that we have another chance… We can try again! We can restart. We can believe again. It’s okay to dream again. So I want to wish all of you (and the world) a wonderful NEW YEAR! Not just today, but every single day of this year! Don’t forget that we can restart again...it doesn’t matter what! Don’t give up! NEVER! This first post I want to share a few of my dreams… and invite you to create a board