Thanks to the magic (ha!) of social media, this blog has some new followers with many questions. Although many Kentucky readers know who I am and my background, I can’t assume that everyone is acquainted with the facts – hence, this primer of sorts on who I am and why this blog (and its associated (read more)

This past December, I wrote a piece entitled “Sound Travels in the Country,” about growing up in the country, and what it means to hear the plaintive wail of an ambulance on a stretch of road that is all family farms. Today I heard that ambulance as I ran to my car, and I knew (read more)

The term “ambulance chaser” had a focused and singular meaning when I was a little girl. If one of the county’s emergency vehicles or fire truck made their way past our driveway, the sound floating up the hill to us, then my father went out to the truck to follow. Sound travels far in the (read more)

Just in case anyone DOES look at this blog besides my dearest and nearest, and you don’t already arrive here from Smitten by Britain – you can find more stories of England, written by yours truly, here! My talents as a writer do not extend to composing blog posts as I am shepherded to three (read more)