If you follow me on Facebook, you saw the big Union Jack I posted recently to honor my British ancestors. I took a DNA test through ancestry.com and the results came back as I expected, more or less. It came as no shock to me that I’m a white European, more than ¾ from the British Isles. That came as …
Blue shoes, trim suits and a nod to old-fashioned fashion
Part of the fun of traveling is seeing how other people live and if what we saw in the United Kingdom last month is any indication, the Brits have us beat when it comes to clothing. Like most world capitals, London should have its share of well-dressed businessmen, but the suit thing followed us to Wales, Dublin and Belfast and …
What I took away from Ireland
Unless you are an American Indian, your people came from someplace else. For me, someplace else is the United Kingdom and Ireland, where I had the good fortune to visit last month. I know that people go there every day, but we hadn’t been in many years and neither me nor my husband had set foot in Northern Ireland. Our …