Travel
Residents of Glasgow, Scotland might be some of the luckiest people in the world. Being from here myself might make me a little biased, but I have my reasons. Scotland’s biggest city is a centre ...
Lockdown restrictions slowly lifting, it’s looking like we are going to have a relative return to normality this summer. However, we must concede that it is currently difficult to book travel abroad. The government is ...
Few cities in Europe can offer a greater diversity of experiences than you can have in London. The new year brings thoughts for how we can take trips to entertain ourselves, and many people will ...
In 1975, my sister, Mary Evelyn, came to visit Tom, Lyle, and I while we were living in Dar es Salaam. We had been there for about a year and were delighted to see her. ...
I’ve decided to talk about things as they occur to me, rather than subject you to a chronological slide show like our parents’ friends used to bore us with (“… and here’s another shot of ...
We walked for miles in every Southern city we visited. Urban walking. We wore jeans and sneakers. Sidewalks. Paved park paths. Asphalt. Cement. Church to parsonage to park to museum to memorial. We chose centrally-located ...
We drove west on Alabama state and county roads – blue highways – from Montgomery to Selma: beautiful farmland, flowering trees in spring bloom, small towns, and, unlike the winter-bitten roads in the North, smooth ...
I once read an interview with an industry-revered fashion model, whose features were described as so strange yet unconventionally alluring, that she was often referred to as being ugly-beautiful. And if ugly-beautiful can be used ...
What are the images that are conjured in your mind when you hear the word ‘London’? The Queen and Buckingham Palace? Red phone booths and black taxi cabs? Grey skies and a sea of black ...
