It all began in 2015 on a beach on Cape Cod. A lady by the name of Megan Murphy decided to write “You’ve Got This” on a rock and left it on the beach, only to have a friend discover it. After that she continued to write inspirational messages on rocks and left them all […]

Father’s Day, though first celebrated on June 19th, 1910 in the state of Washington, it wasn’t until 1972 (58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official) that Father’s Day became a nationwide holiday here in the United States. Did you know that Mother’s Day (which has its origins in the peace and reconciliation […]

Yes, this post is being published a few days early, since I have a post coming up on Friday regarding Father’s Day on Sunday June 21st – and I’d like to post a few days early to get a start on the honoring of African American freedom and contributions to American culture, history and every […]

If you are in the Great Lakes region, no matter which state (or province!!!), there is so much to see and do, some of which cost a lot of money, some of which are little to no cost. One thing about the Great Lakes Region is indeed: THE GREAT LAKES!! So much history in the […]

Culture? What’s that? The definition, according to the picture shown here, is basically a group’s intellectual and artistic achievements, customs, the everyday routine and way of thinking.  Does the U.S. even have a culture? When I was an exchange student in Germany in high school during the 1990s, one of the prominent negative stereotypes of […]

Just last summer I had the wonderful opportunity to visit a couple lavender farms right on Old Mission Peninsula, located just north of Traverse City (Michigan) for the first time ever. Although it was already past peak season for the lavender plants in this area, there was still plenty of beautiful sites and smells to […]

As a young child, I enjoyed reading – I loved to read books from the Golden Book series. A lot of fun, engaging stories. As the years passed by, I slowly lost interest in reading. It wasn’t until the summer of 1990, when vacationing in the Traverse City, MI area with family, we went to […]

It is amazing what one learns when one digs up the history behind holidays. I always knew of Memorial Day to be a holiday in which our military personnel who died while serving were honored. But little did I know the history behind it and how it evolved. I remember in high school, I couldn’t […]

Good day! Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I am so excited to start writing about a variety of topics, including travel, culture, history, etc. I have traveled throughout the U.S. as well as to Canada and Europe. While traveling internationally, it struck me how many people didn’t see the U.S. as a place […]