Writing and Rambling

England Now comes the part of my journey (after first heading to Ireland, and then to Scotland) where I get to say . . . I MADE IT TO ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *confetti guns going off* *uproarious cheers from the crowd* *Champagne…
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Scotland After our trip to Ireland we climbed aboard the Irish Airline, Aer Lingus– green airplanes (of course!) with a dashing little clover on the tail.  Our redheaded flight attendants walked up and down the rows while we gazed out the…
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Ireland Well, I have finally taken my trip of a lifetime to the UK (and sundries), and it started out innocently enough.  If you remember how I started my blog, you know that it was originally begun in a madcap…
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Cookies for England “Up where the smoke is all billered and curled ‘Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world. When there’s hardly no day, nor hardly no night– There’s things half in shadow and halfway in light.”  …
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Dawn I can still remember as vividly as if it were yesterday the day my parents dropped me off at college in South Carolina, after a long trip from Pennsylvania.  They helped me move into my dorm room, make my…
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Remarkable It all started at the doctor’s office. “Here are your records,” the nurse said cheerfully.  “All your daughter’s immunizations are up to date, so just go ahead and double check over the address and family history and make sure…
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We Got The Tea Once two strangers climbed on rocky top, Lookin’ for a moonshine still. Strangers ain’t come back from rocky top, Guess they never will. All that I ever needed to learn about tea, I learned in the…
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I Remember You It’s funny how life works.  Funny how you can go through life, almost with invisible threads connecting your heart to what you know– to how you grew up. You forget about it.  You move away from it….
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“Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”…
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