If I ever go to London again, I’m going to the theatre every night. If I had a “do over” from my trip to Europe, that would be it. We went to a single play and saw the irreverent “Book of Mormon”. It’s the kind of play where you either laugh or leave. I laughed. …
Enlighted
I was about eleven when I ran across the word “homosexual” in a book I was reading. I wasn’t familiar with the word, so I asked my mom what it meant. She wanted to know why I asked. “It’s in this book, and I don’t know what it means.” She asked me to read the …
Minstrels Will Sing
A minstrel was an entertainer in medieval Europe. Having just returned from fifteen days in the British Isles, and after exploring several castles, the term was sitting in my brain, when I played in a couple of golf competitions this past week. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, singer …
Update
When I was approached to sell my book at The Villages Barnes and Noble last spring, I jumped at the chance. Twelve local authors had their books sold for a three-month period. Mine was available April, May and June. We each introduced our works in a public presentation. Six people spoke in April and six …
Tommy
We planned to take the Hop On Hop Off Bus in Liverpool. It worked well for us in London, and we expected the same in our newest city. We found the stop closest to the cruise ship but learned something new as we purchased our tickets. It was twelve pounds for an all-day ticket and …
The People
I met several nice people on my cruise of the British Isles. Some were on the ship, and some were in the various ports where we stopped. I think we’re all more alike than different no matter where we live. We hired four different Uber drivers in London and private cars in Glascow and the …
Normandy
We visited Normandy through the port of Lavre, France last Monday. We stopped at the German burial field first where 21,200 German soldiers are buried in graves of two. The American cemetery just down the road holds 9,387. I’m told there are a total of twenty-one military cemeteries in the region where 130,000 died. When …
Edinburgh, Scotland
We visited St. Andrews yesterday. It’s the home of golf. When the kids were young, Ruth and I took all three to the local par three golf course called Silver Lake. It’s on US 12 a few miles from our Lake LeAnn home. We’d go on Sunday afternoons. I don’t recall how many golfers I …
On Our Way To Orkney Islands – Kirkwall, Scotland
About a dozen ago, our entire family met in Montana. We stayed at the bed and breakfast. Ruth and I slept in the main house while the kids and their crews stayed in a couple of cabins on the property. We had a great time. We all went on a two hour horseback trail ride. …
Dear Old Ireland
I’m in Dublin today. We arrived an hour late due to intense fog but we’ll proceed on as planned.. I visited the Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland yesterday. I didn’t kiss the Blarney stone like many people have. It didn’t seem sanitary to me. I guess I was channeling my inner Sheldon Cooper from The …