chocolate chips and maple syrup

so after a busy and happy week (6 days?) at home i am all packed up and returning to the world of Roma. i think of most people in philadelphia, i was the most appreciative of the freezing rain and winds this past week. it opens up those crazy conversations with strangers that are impossible to recount later because they are just too strange. but anyway. the point of the story, is that now that i have gotten to take in those chemicals that are particluar to philly, and just floating in the air here back into my blood stream. i feel refreshed, relaxed and ready to take in some more rome.
as most of you know, i am taking ruth with me, and i am going to hold on to her for about 12 days or so. we are gonna super hero sister team it up... as it were... and roam the roman streets (... get it?) for about two weeks - anyway, we'll post stuff, and so on. but it was good to see everyone... or.. almost everyone. and yall best stay well! anyway, i don't leave for the airport for a nice bunch of hours, but i figured i'd write something now.
p.s.
guess what is opening at the art museum from feb. 20th until may 18th!!!
Frida Kahlo!!!
(http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/278.html)

(this is the image that came in the mail)
anyway.
peace yall
see ya in the spring
love