Every year I host a Reading Challenge in my Posse group on Facebook where each month hosts a different theme. Some themes center around the covers, some on the authors, but I do my best to include at least one theme each year that centers on settings. One of my favorite things about reading is having a story transport me to another place and time. To experience the culture of the characters and … [Read more...]
A Cotswolds Caper
If you've watched the show All Creatures Great and Small, you've likely been captured by the beauty of the Cotswolds and the Yorkshire Dales in the UK. Joe and I recently returned from ten days in the Cotswolds with some dear friends, and it was a wonderful trip! Here are some glimpses . . . We stayed in Burford and took day trips into the surrounding countryside... Joe and I … [Read more...]
Ireland and Scotland…and That’s a Wrap!
Thanks so much for your patience as over the past month I've shared our trip to Paris, the UK, and my time in York, England where I got to see the home where my great-great grandparents lived at the time they emigrated to America. Today, is the final installment of our trip—our time in Ireland and Scotland. After our tumultuous ferry crossing, we drove through the lush, green countryside to the … [Read more...]
Greetings from the Netherlands
This week, I'm writing from Holland. Yep, I'm on another continent. There is sometihing about traveling that feeds my soul and this trip is reminding me of that in all the best ways. I just don't get to see cathedrals like this walking around my town in the middle of cornfields in Indiana. Much as I'd like to imagine it, it's not the case. I also don't see markers like this reminding … [Read more...]
We’ll always have Paris
Last Tuesday was such a fun day! Deb (Raney) my dear friend and writing critique partner for some 20+ years now and I met at a midway point for a visit—and that place happened to be Paris, TN! We started our visit at Sweet Jordan's, a wonderful restaurant that happens to serve some of the best bread pudding we've ever had! Sweet Jordan's is an extraordinary, not-to-be-missed … [Read more...]
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