Posts by Betsy
Oh The Places To Go Around the USA
Road trips are our family’s favorite way to travel. We love listening to audio books while we see the sights around the Untied States. I’d love to eventually make it to all 50 states, and we’re over half way there. I’m gathering up all of my family travel posts in one place to inspire your…
Read MoreExperiencing Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs Arkansas
On our third anniversary, my husband and I visited the Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, AR and loved it. Ever since then, I’ve longed to go back. When my son wanted to visit Ouachita Baptist University down the road in Arkadelphia, I had to take the opportunity to see it again. Even though we…
Read MoreStepping Back in Time Visiting Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
I have a great admiration for the early settlers of our country. They could look at a piece of land and be willing to do whatever it took to make a life there. 250 years ago Tennessee was the wild west. Andrew Jackson bravely cultivated an incredible life for himself and his wife just outside…
Read MoreReading Deep and Wide: My First 25 Books I’ve Read in 2018
At the beginning of this year, I set a goal not for the quantity of books that I would like to read this year, but the quality of the reader that I would like to become. I’m happy to report that not only did I make it through January without TV in the evening, but…
Read MoreExploring the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
Since visiting the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston several years ago, my mom purchased a “passport” to the presidential libraries and has desired to see them all. The first one my kids and I went to with my mother was the LBJ library in Austin. It was so much more than I expected.…
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