simply me and jeans

People often ask if I got what I was looking for out of my trip to Scotland but I’m not sure how to answer that question. I was never sure what I was looking for.  I struggled with whether to go in the first place and almost backed out a few times because, let’s be honest, […]

It might have been 20 feet long and 10 feet wide but there’s really no way to know.  The eyes of a child see things larger than they usually are simply because everything is larger than they are. It wasn’t my favorite place to go growing up because I was the youngest, the only girl […]

How is it possible?  How can a memory hold such power that the thought of it stirs up emotion that causes goosebumps to form on her arm?  How could such an insignificant memory have such a profound impact on years of her life? How can a grown woman hold such a small memory inside her […]

Words are strange things.  Simply scribblings that have been accepted by the masses to mean something and whose meaning, in this day and time, can just as easily and arbitrarily be changed. Some of us use them with the precision of a surgeons’ knife to cut to the heart quickly and almost imperceptibly.  Some of […]

I’ve been consumed lately with thoughts of travel.  There’s no telling how many hours I’ve spent researching hotels, activities and airline flights.   Honestly, if I got paid for it I would be doing pretty well right now; but the truth is, I just love it.  I love reading about all the historical facts and interesting […]