Category Archives: Travel

Entangled in a Series

So here I was, ready for my first interview in a very long time and my guest cannot access her email.  So, I said to myself, “You’ve started listening to a book series and were pleasantly surprised, review it.”  “But”, I … Continue reading

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Is There FAIRness in the World?

 Is there a place that you have traveled to when you were younger that you wish you could visit again? You can pretty much read Elaine’s Wednesday post, with some of Patty’s from Monday and Angie’s from Tuesday, since they … Continue reading

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Return Trip

Our Tuesday Fox asked, “Is there a place that you have traveled to when you were younger that you wish you could visit again?” Looking at the wording of this question – specifically, the phrase “wish you could” –  I … Continue reading

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Top Spots

Do you have favorite spots in nature, such as a view, the wood, a sea or lake shore? (I am rather sorry that this topic/post rather overlaps with one just a couple of weeks ago.) The ocean was generally my … Continue reading

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Visits to the Past and Future

Albeit Very Short Ones By Jeff Salter Topic: Have you ever visited a part of the country where things were done as an older time, or were far more modern than you are accustomed? As a kid, our family vacations … Continue reading

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Stuck in the Present

Our Friday Fox asked, “Have you ever visited a part of the country where things were done as an older time, or were far more modern than you are accustomed?” I’ll begin with the second part of the question. Assuming … Continue reading

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Guest: Author Bishop O’Connell

I met Bishop O’Connell when we both commented on another author’s Facebook page. I had to ask him about his name since my husband graduated from Bishop O’Connell High School in Northern Virginia. It was not far from where I … Continue reading

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My View of the World

Our Friday Fox asked, “How have moves or other locales affected your writing?” As you might expect, any life experience is going to color an author’s writing. But when I sat down to write this post, my first thought was … Continue reading

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Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman

Since the first time I saw it on TV as a teenager, one of my favorite movies has been “Inn of the Sixth-Happiness”, with Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jürgens and Robert Donat.  I bought a VHS tape of it when as … Continue reading

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Travel Time

Our Tuesday Fox posed another topic for this week: “When on a trip (either a long vacation or a day trip) how do you occupy the travel time, or keep the kids occupied?” Growing up, my family took very few … Continue reading

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