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Collected Journeys
Sharing stories of travel and reflection.
Collected Journeys memorializes our travels, discoveries, sometimes misadventures, but always learning moments.
I invite you, curious readers, to peak into the inspirations and people we meet in this wild world.
So, sit back, relax, and be my virtual sidekick. Life is too short to sit on a shelf.
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Two to a Ewe
Every twist and corner of the narrow Yorkshire road revealed another rolling field filled with lambs and ewes, some roaming the road,...
May 30, 20228 min read
Art is More than a Name
Art heals. My imagination ignites when I see a painter set up his easel, wonder how he will interpret the scene he is viewing, then pass...
Apr 30, 20223 min read
Pass the Legos and Spread the Hyggë
Our joyfully anticipated Christmas in Sweden was cancelled when we got Covid. The well thought out, lovingly handmade and purchased gifts...
Apr 15, 20225 min read
Why must history repeat itself?
A chance to celebrate Dean Corey's 75th birthday in Spain was planned and as France’s infection rates rose, the birthday celebrants...
Mar 13, 20226 min read
Gon-zona-fornia
(Oregon, Arizona, California) What a wonderful adventure to smoothly float over the wispy clouds in a shiny airship viewing expansive...
Feb 16, 20224 min read
Bath at Christmas 2021
I love a good Halloween costume party and hosted parties for years so I was a bit taken back at this group of "older than grade school...
Dec 25, 20213 min read
Kent County
*Minding your p's and q's After living in a large French city I was a bit surprised by a change of attitude here in Bath. In France...
Dec 14, 20215 min read
Sign of the Times
I enjoy British humor and this plaque sums it up. Expecting to read a commemorating blue plaque about an important event, I was...
Nov 29, 20213 min read
Britain at War, a lot (short history primer)
"Reflecting on the past, while living in the present, gives us future insight". Wendy Arraki The era of Jane Austen's life corresponds...
Nov 21, 20213 min read
The Myth of Driving & Windsor/Eton
My earliest legal driving experience was getting a farm permit at 14 years old. In 1969, farm permits allowed children to contribute to...
Nov 2, 20213 min read
Wendy and Tia's Big Adventure
Tia and I were not only design business partners for 24 years but friends sharing numerous adventures and world travel. I only had to...
Oct 26, 20213 min read
Choosing Family
"You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family" is attributed to Harper Lee's character Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird....
Oct 3, 20213 min read
All Things Austen
Jane Austen Undoubtedly Bath's most famous author, Jane Austen, set 2 of her novels in Bath, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Jane's most...
Sep 5, 20214 min read
My 2 Shetlands
Bath has a mystical vibration, a sub current of other-worldly, psychic connections. When I think of words that describe this city there...
Aug 20, 20214 min read
A Tale of 2 Wales
"Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow". Dylan Thomas With the spirit of Dylan Thomas, Wales favorite poet, and a...
Aug 3, 20214 min read
Flying over Oz
The Financial Times, our preferred weekend newspaper, requires an accompanying dictionary to translate English to English. One of the...
Jul 16, 20214 min read
Escape on the Continent
Living in France we used to watch a Netflix show called "Escape to the Continent". The premise of the series was to be a vicarious...
Jul 4, 20218 min read
Real Life Cruellas/American Museum and Gardens
I have to temper my dog envy whilst out walking. (An aside: I love some of the words so common in English usage like whilst). No more...
Jun 13, 20215 min read
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words How's the weather? This picture sums up a week or even a day in England. “If you don’t like the...
Jun 3, 20213 min read
Frankenstein in Bath (sadly, not a happy tale)
Some days I write for fun and some days I write so I can think. The desire to explore and express flows out of my mind in ways I can't...
May 24, 20214 min read
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