Ignorance is no excuse One of the very few things I remember from my Business Law class is ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse,’ nor is it a valid defense. However, in Aberdeen not only did I unknowingly break several laws, had I been caught, ignorance would have been my only defense. Aberdeen is […]
Medical Museums I graduated nursing school last year and as a flashback to that time in history, I’m dedicating the month of October to my fascination with all things nursing, medical, and otherwise health related. First up in my orgy of medical museums and such is the Semmelweis Museum in Budapest, Hungary. I feel bad […]
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little freedom deserves neither and will lose both.” Benjamin Franklin I used to love to watch the news. I think it was because 1. as a kid, we only had 5 channels and 2. the news was always so exciting with reporters in […]
South Carolina State Parks | Hampton Plantation Last summer, a friend and I started the quest to visit all 47 of South Carolina’s state parks. We made it about halfway by the end of December. Since then, South Carolina is helping the National Parks Service celebrate its 100th birthday by adding an incentive: visit all […]
Unpacking is never ending. I was recently going through some of my boxes, and found photos and other mementos of my trip to Rome [and Italy] over 10! years ago. Time flies when you’re busy traveling the world, writing a blog, going to graduate school,working an actual real job, and doing all the other things […]
I have a confession to make that will put me squarely in the literary hall of shame–I have never, not even once, read a book by Earnest Hemingway. It’s not as if I haven’t tried…I just find them incredibly boring, but to have been Hemingway, to have lived a carefree life of travel, whisky, women […]
I admit to being a nerd…especially when it comes to medicine, or more accurately the history of medicine. Medicine today is strangled, but this is not about that. I have recently discovered the TV show The Knick. As per usual, I am late to the party as season 2 finished up last fall and […]
My first visit to Budapest was a frosty sojourn where I tried to be either inside or in the toasty warm thermal baths at all times. I learned a lot about Budapest’s cafe culture, walked around the city with my head wrapped in hats and scarves, learned to use Europe’s second oldest subway efficiently, attended some […]
For 2016, I have the goal I started last summer of hiking all 47 State Parks + the 7 National Historical Areas in South Carolina. King’s Mountain is a time-saver as it checks off both a state park AND a National Historic Battlefield. My hiking partner and I were walking the trails when I heard […]
Today is Veterans Day in the USA. In the UK it’s known as Armistice Day as it is the day that WWI ended–on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the guns fell silent. It is a day to remember our soldiers, from the Revolutionary War to the latest conflict. […]