Travelogue South England April-May 2023 Arundel Castle
This travel post describes and provides photos of the highlights of a visit to Arundel Castle in the South of England in May 2023.
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
This travel post describes and provides photos of the highlights of a visit to Arundel Castle in the South of England in May 2023.
A travel post about a trip to Brighton Pavilion in May 2023. One of many travel posts from our three week trip.
This travel post talks about several days spent touring destinations in England in April-May 2023, including Hastings, Rye, Polesdon Lacey, Standen and South Lodge Hotel and Spa.
A description of a visit to Sissinghurst Garden in the South of England in late April 2023.
This travel post describes a visit to Great Dixter, a garden created by Christopher Lloyd, in East Sussex, England.
This post describes a visit to Windsor England in Spring of 2023.
This travel piece describes an eight-hour plane flight to England from Orlando, Florida.
This travel post explains why a trip to England after such a long period of being grounded, felt like an adventure.
This post introduces a series of posts about a trip to England in April and May of 2023 by explaining what went before.
This is a poem about change when change is needed and one of the best changes is a change in location, or transplant.
This poem describes the all-too-human urge to leave it all behind, even when we know that what we've got is pretty special.
We have all been through months and months of difficult events and conditions, from COVID to impeachment, from job loss to natural disaster. Who doesn’t long for escape? And those with a few years under their belts may long not only to enjoy again, but also, to have the the energy to enjoy everything thoroughly! …
{I had to think about this Friday Fictioneers photo prompt for a while before deciding how to approach it. Thus the somewhat late entry. For those of you who don’t already know, “camel case” is the name for the typographical use of capitals, to differentiate the important, meaningful parts of a single (usually compound) …
Spring. This is the time of year, even in the coldest climate, when your thoughts turn to gardens. You may not, necessarily, spend a lot of time thinking about the work of gardening: the clearing of the spent beds, the weeding, the digging, the planting, the fertilizing, the mulching. But you do relish and long …
{This post was originally published around Memorial Day, 2017, as a response to the WordPress.com prompt “Detonate”. I have included this is my series SIxty Days because it touches upon our relationship to the outside world, our sense of ourselves as heroes, and our terror of those who might seek to harm us. …
“And what should they know of England, who only England know?” –Rudyard Kipling (“The English Flag“) If you are like me, you are a PBS Masterpiece junkie. Anything dramatized by BBC and taking place at least twenty years ago, with gorgeous costumery, will strike your fancy. So you must be as thrilled as I …