My friend posted a list of 100 random things her daughter wrote about herself out of boredom and I thought I’d give it a shot…
Today I gave my official notice at work and my last day will be 8 July 2011. This is a celebratory moment because it means…
Nine years ago today, my intended life plans changed. Only I didn’t know it at the time. I was living in Scotland whilst studying at…
The second annual “Freeze Your Fanny and Burns’ Supper Extravaganza” weekend is officially over and I think it was a great success! There were 18 of us…
Oh my, oh my, oh my! My normally quiet home has transcended into a madhouse! But it’s a happy madhouse. Yep, the house is chock-a-block…
I am American, born and bred to American parents. My ancestors are Germans from Russia. This means that I am not, contrary to the insistence…
I was given a little birdhouse the other day by my foster daughter. She came home and rather unceremoniously handed it to me on her…
I’m a runner. I have been since school when I ran on the cross country team. I enjoy running. Really, I do. But I never…
It was September 2001. I was 27 years old and travelling off of the North American continent for the first time in my life. No,…
I woke up yesterday morning with “Caledonia” going through my head so decided to grab my “The Best Scottish Album in the World…Ever” CD to…
As part of my effort to take back my lunchtime, I’ve spent today’s lunch break composing a little ditty on my laptop just for my awesome…
Well, that’s me home again to the great US of A. But you know what? I don’t feel that I’ve come home. I feel like…
So there I was in line at the British Airways counter at SeaTac. With me were three of my five sisters and their kids and…
I started this post thinking it would be about my love of (obsession for?) fish-n-chips but couldn’t stop myself from going on these little tangents…
I decided to take advantage of a 30-day free trial on NetFlix today in a quest to rent the movie Stone of Destiny, after learning…
I finally filed my taxes. I say finally because I normally have mine completed and filed the first week of February – based on the…
Mum and I travelled to England and Scotland to visit some of my family and friends for two weeks in winter 2010 and this is a small…
Our time in the UK has sadly come to an end and we are now back in America after leaving Edinburgh in the early morning…
We arrived in Scotland yesterday afternoon to bright sunny skies. We had planned to spend the day winding up the English coast and stay somewhere…
After a lovely couple of days in Yorkshire, we made the trip to Teesside on Sunday by way of a few small, back-country roads where…