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Many scorn Facebook for its fake nature. Each social media post is a window to that person’s reality. The size, slant, and tint of the window is influenced by what they want you to see, what they want to hide, where they are, who they are with, what they had for lunch, and how they see themselves. I admit that…
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Though my first trip to Edinburgh was in February 2015 and certainly not warm, it had been sunny and only chilly, not blustery cold and wet. I have been spoiled in my past travels and blessed with unseasonably great weather. So why would I expect anything less when visiting Scotland in April? My British friends knew better and scoffed at…
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I first visited Edinburgh in February of 2015 with Marcie. Here’s a link to an album of that trip. We absolutely loved it. The ornate architecture with wonderful sculptural details everywhere was captivating. Even the air vents are pretty. You can find live music any night of the week. People are friendly and have awesome accents. Despite popular opinion, I…
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I promise I’ll write about my Scotland experiences soon, but I came across this quote today from Janette Tepas in an International Living article and it expresses something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. The featured photo is one that I took in Hawaii in 2013. It had rained every day (I’m not talking sprinkles, this was downpour) and…
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This is it. Stacy sits next to me on the plane to Edinburgh, Scotland, reading a fantasy novel about dragons. As surreal as this feels, we may as well be on our way to fight dragons ourselves. It hasn’t sunk in yet that this is the day. The first day of what? The rest of our lives? The first day…
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God’s got a sick sense of humor… My doctor said that God was playing a joke on me to see how badly I wanted this adventure. I thought about skipping writing about the stress to get back to the fun stuff, but I’m keeping it real. The past few weeks were some of the most stressful of my life. Frustration,…
