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Anglophilia, a repost from one year ago today

By Susan March 21, 2022Travel

In the Cotswolds Cliffside at Reculver Rousham House and Gardens Anglophilia? Sounds like a disease. However, the definition by Merriam Webster? “Unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English.” …

Pristine Coral Reef Found Off Tahiti Coast

By Susan January 24, 2022Travel

Deep in the South Pacific, scientists have explored a rare stretch of pristine corals shaped like roses off the coast of Tahiti. The reef is thought to be one of…

Anglophilia

By Susan October 21, 2021Life Thoughts, Travel

This is a re-post from March 21, 2021. Anglophilia? Sounds like a disease. In fact, the definition by Merriam Webster: Unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English. Stratford-on-Avon…

Ode to Cleveland, Part II

By Susan September 30, 2021Life Thoughts, Travel5 Comments

Despite the scare of Covid that kept many classmates from attending, vaccinated, I decided early on that I would go to my 50th Shaker Heights High School reunion. Though many of…

Ode to Cleveland

By Susan September 26, 2021Travel2 Comments

I promised myself when I was 25 years old that I would leave my hometown by 30. I didn’t want to say I had lived and died in Cleveland, Ohio.…

Bliss, Part II: A Week at the Beach

By Susan September 15, 2021Travel

Who doesn’t feel rejuvenated from a week at the beach? Careful in the Alabama Covid cesspool, we rent a cottage in a lesser populated area of Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan,…

Bread Loaf School of English

By Susan September 2, 2021Life Thoughts, Travel

Years and years ago, after dropping my daughter off at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, for a 2-week high school summer debate camp, I went exploring graduate campuses for…

Read the First Pages!

By Susan August 30, 2021Book Excerpts, Travel

Since I am finally returning to Rain Dodging for revision, perhaps you would enjoy the opening pages? Chapter One: Getting There “Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ’ere the irrevocable moment…

How Rain Dodging Came to Be

By Susan August 23, 2021Oxford Research, Travel, Writing

Two blogs ago, I wrote about my current writing progression for Rain Dodging. But where did the book’s idea come from? Working on my second master’s degree, I was blessed to…

Heaven on Earth: The Art Institute of Chicago

By Susan August 12, 2021Travel1 Comment

Part II of my blog about my adventure in Chicago last week focuses on my day at the Art Institute of Chicago: When I made online reservations from home for…