I started this draft two weeks before Christmas, and here we are, almost done with January and I’m still fiddling with it. Perhaps not the best start to blogging in 2018, or is it? Having spent the majority of my life functioning as a Type … Continue reading Wrapping Up 2017
Having survived a typically hectic October (ghost tour season!) with no escapes on the books since July, I found myself in desperate need of a jaunt out of town. Once struck by the idea it wouldn’t let me go, and so I booked a perfect … Continue reading Why Julia?
A couple of Decembers ago, my flight was delayed out of the Charlotte airport. After having a little nosh, I found myself, tea in hand, lost in the airport bookshop. Now I am a great fan of Sherlock Holmes, and on this particular occasion, I … Continue reading Mark Twain House-Summer 2017 Road Trip Part I
In my apartment, hanging on the wall above my couch, I have a framed picture of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Above Winston and Clemmie are Julia and Paul Child. And on the side table next to my reading chair is John Adams. Some people have … Continue reading Why Winston?
Ah NOLA! I honestly can’t remember the first time I visited The Big Easy. It was probably on an epic road trip to Disney World when I was tiny. I have a very vague recollection of being informed that my grandfather needed to stop for … Continue reading New Orleans
Literis Antiquis Novis Institutis Decora: Distinguished for Classical Learning and New Institutions Motto of Cambridge, Massachusetts On my very first visit to Boston in 2010, I made a stop in Harvard Square. The steeples and yards washed me in memories of my two blissful summers … Continue reading Cantabrigia
A little boy was sitting in the corner of a railway carriage looking out at the rain, which was splashing against the windows and blotching downward in an ugly, dirty way. He was not the only person in the carriage, but the others were strangers … Continue reading Green Knowe
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” -J.K. Rowling As the weather starts to change in September, I do think of Salem and Hocus Pocus, but I also usually experience a sincere urge to … Continue reading Harry Potter (and the Wizarding World of)
Y’all, fall is magic. The gloaming of the year. The trees and the sky catch on fire and anything is possible. Sweaters and pumpkin and apples and cozy blankets, and HOCUS POCUS!!!! Fall. I can’t say enough about it. It thrills me through and through. … Continue reading Salem
Every so often I find myself moving along, caught up in the minutiae of my day, usually thinking about lunch, when suddenly I turn a corner and am confronted with a sight that makes the world around me stop spinning. Sometimes it’s the giant harvest … Continue reading Melk Abbey
I Digress 