Ever since I was in high school and my cousin went to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, I’ve wanted to go see the gorgeous city and blue waters of the Adriatic Sea that she talked so much about. So when we decided to go with friends to London in May, we tacked on my bucket-list trip to Dubvronik. … Continue reading Dubrovnik through a Window of Discovery
If you’ve been a follower of this blog, you know I have loved New York City from the first time I got to really experience it. Imagine my disappointment when COVID hit a week after I finally was able to move there full time. This blog was intended to be about New York City (new … Continue reading A Memorable Manhattan Mother’s Day
Another year, another spring dilemma about how to get a car from Texas to Idaho. After I nixed Don’s idea of shipping the car because I like the adventure of driving, we tossed a few ideas around. One stuck quite quickly. Don would fly and since my sister would be on summer break about the … Continue reading Miles and Memories: A Sisters’ Roadtrip
The artsy photo above is one of my favorites from my recent trip to Asheville with my daughter, Lauren. So why isn’t this image the cover photo you ask? Because this trip wasn’t about the Biltmore, or the amazing food we ate, or even Furman basketball (I’ll get to that later). It was about Lauren … Continue reading A Mother/Daughter Pause
Don and I were due to meet up with friends in England in September 2024. We decided to fly across the “Pond” a week or so before and explore the English countryside. The Cotswolds to be exact. The Cotswolds is renowned for its rolling hills, storybook villages, impressive churches and lovely sheep farms. It is … Continue reading Petals and Pubs amid a Picturesque Landscape: The Cotswolds
It sounded like a good idea when we planned the boys’ college spring break trip a few months earlier – a relaxing adventure after the busy weeks just before Lauren and Holton’s wedding followed by the scramble of moving out of our temporary apartment in Texas. My next stop would be New York City, but … Continue reading In Iceland as the World Began to Close
I’ve mentioned a few times in other blog posts about my struggles with giving up my career and being a stay-at-home mom. You may have noticed that I find patterns in unexpected places. One pattern I’ve observed – and shared more than once – is that women who stayed at home with their children often … Continue reading My Grandma Era
My first peek at Washington State was three months into the Covid pandemic. Our hotel in Moscow, Idaho had a flyer for picturesque scenes in Palouse County, Washington. So of course, we popped on over and snapped some photos. Since that time, I’ve been to Washington at least a half dozen times or so. I’ll … Continue reading Postcards from the Evergreen State
The Mid-Atlantic coast is a bit of a jumbled blur in my mind, especially the Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey states and how they fit together. Did you know that Scranton Pennsylvania is north of New York City? If you did, you know about that area better than I do. Or did, until … Continue reading Harbor to History: At the Threshold of the Chesapeake Bay
When planning our Moroccan adventure, we decided that after two nights in Marrakech we would stay local(ish) rather than flying off to other parts of Morocco. We just had to get there. So we rented a car and drove to three different locations outside of the city, all relatively near the base of the High … Continue reading Between Peaks and Pouring Tea: Stories from Morocco’s High Atlas Villages
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