Panama City Beach – Part Deux – - “The Case of the Missing Scooter”

Over the July Fourth weekend, my boyfriend Chris and I decided that we wanted to get out of town for a few days – and naturally, I thought of the beach. I don’t know what it is about Panama City Beach this year, but after a 20 year boycott, I have found myself gracing the [...]

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A Cowboy Hat and an Open Road

I bought a cowboy hat the other day on a whim. I’m sassy most any day of the week but with the hat, I’m Super-sized Sassy with a side order or Kicking-Your-Ass. I really don’t know what possessed me to buy the hat – – but there they sat atop a shelf at Target in [...]

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Panama City Beach or BUST

So my new cousin-in-law (got that?) Liz and I were jonesin’ for a trip out-of-town to the beach, and originally were aiming for Pensacola to participate in their annual “Mullet Toss” weekend (the fish, not the haircut – – not that the idea of tossing fish is much better than tossing bad haircuts). But the [...]

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Tennessee Tornadoes – - or “The day I almost had to lie in a ditch”

The bizarre can descend upon a seemingly normal day like Joaquin Phoenix on a late night talk show – – rambling and unexpected from the wings of the afternoon’s stage, suddenly obliterating the careful script you’d written for your activities into a million pieces. And so began my afternoon last Friday when I was driving [...]

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The Little Known, but Much Feared…New Mexican “Third Eye”

My friend Cathi and I decided to take a trip out west to beautiful, sunny New Mexico last Spring to visit our friend Valerie, in an effort to do what girls do best: drink copious amounts of wine, think everything is a LOT more funny than it actually is, and then head to a spa [...]

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Turn on the Telly

When I visit the UK, I like to watch TV. Oh, I know I should be out seeing the sights….and often I DO…but when you’ve been to that country as many times as I have, you begin to immerse yourself in the smaller nuances of life there as much as the tourist stops. It can [...]

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The Light of the UK

In the years that I have been traveling across the pond, one of the first things that I notice when I step out, bleary-eyed and jetlagged, onto UK soil, is the light. The light there is different. There is a muted, sheer quality to it – – delicate and dancing across surfaces in a very [...]

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The Strangeness that is Air Travel

  I’ve done a fair amount of traveling in the last three or four years – – boarding plane after plane taking me here, there and yonder.  The UK has been my destination on a frequent basis due to matters of the heart, and it has, thus, become a land very close to my heart [...]

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