Tower of London
The message on the tee shirt of the guy from Barcelona, who sat across from me on the train from London Gatwick …
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson is a wide-ranging artist-activist born in Copenhagen in 1967, whose work I had not yet encountered. On August 25, 2019, …
Highland Adventures with Family
Dunrobin Castle was the first stop on Lilli and Violet”s welcome-to-Scotland tour on August 19. Dunrobin has all the elements of a …
Getting Our Steps
Is it important to walk 10,000 steps each day to stay fit? The BBC reports that three brisk 10-minute walks per day …
Highland Clearances
Two centuries ago the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland decided they could profit more by installing large-scale sheep farms on their vast …
Dornoch Cathedral
As the church bells ring on Sunday mornings, Allene, Jim, Steve, and I walk through an ancient graveyard to worship at Dornoch …
Highland Gardens
From the day we arrived in Dornoch two weeks ago, the gardens of the Highlands of Scotland have brought much beauty into …
Highland Games
Sunny 68-degree weather favored the Highland Games we attended in both Dornoch and Moy this past weekend. On Friday at noon we …
Highland Adventures with Friends
How lucky Allene, Nina, Susan, and I are to know Marion McAuley, who lives here in Dornoch with her husband Ian. She …
Bach Preludes
In seventh grade, I started lessons with Hurshelene Journey-McCarty at Frank Phillips Junior College in Borger, Texas. One of my first assignments …