A Baby Boomer Trip Down Memory Lane: A Fish Out of Water in Devizes,...
The Market Cross in the center (um, centre) of Devizes (photo credit www.devizes.org.uk) I recently read a blog post by a British woman, writing about her dread at having to participate in the...
View ArticleGhost Haunts in the United Kingdom: York, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Pluckley
(Boo! This is a guest post by Catherine Lavinia.) You don’t have to wait until Halloween to enjoy an evening of the macabre while visiting the United Kingdom. The UK is full of spooky delights for you...
View ArticleTraveling through History
My most recent blog post was a light hearted ode to lawn ornaments in Brigantine, N.J. Even though I have been accused of being a very serious Baby Boomer (i.e. boring, but reliable), I try to add at...
View ArticleSail Away with P&O Cruises
Mr. Excitement and I enjoy leaving the “driving” to a cruise ship captain on occasion, but we have never taken a cruise that departed from a European port. Therefore, I am pleased to be able to share...
View ArticleTo Write or Not to Write, That is the Question
Fountain pen nib. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons. BenFrantzDale I need to clarify that by “write”, I mean “hand-write”. This post is inspired by a Facebook discussion started by a homeschooling...
View ArticleZentangle Diva’s Challenges ##275 and 276 – Back in the USA from Scotland and...
(New to Zentangle? Start here.) I missed posting my response to last week’s challenge. My excuse—I was too busy visiting people in England. My real excuse, I found the tangle Crux difficult to master —...
View ArticleZentangle Diva Challenge #286 – Back from England & Iceland Edition
Doesn’t everyone who has visited the Old Greenwich Observatory have a photograph of themselves straddling the eastern and western hemisphere at the Prime Meridian? For the first time since I started...
View ArticleA One Day Visit to Maritime Greenwich (London) England, A UNESCO World...
A ship in a bottle from a collection at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. It wasn’t until my fifth visit to London that I finally made it to the Royal Borough of Greenwich, one of 33...
View ArticleZentangle Diva Challenge #289 –“Ahoy Thar” Edition
Once again I was MIA for another week. This is becoming a disturbing unfortunate habit. I’m going to blame it on watching too much TV coverage of the United States’ election and thus becoming paralyzed...
View ArticleZentangle Diva Challenge #317 – Stand with England Edition
I realize it’s kind of very late in the week to be posting my response to this week’s Zentangle Diva’s challenge which was to use a photo as a string and tangle around it. This week’s challenge was...
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