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Why Walking Away from the Classroom and Starting a YouTube channel was the Best Decision I’ve Ever Made.
35 year old me would never expected the joy I've found since leaving the classroom and becoming a content creator. Many of us reach a point in life where we feel the system we once believed in no longer reflects who we are. Maybe you’ve felt it too — that quiet pull to do something meaningful, to teach, create, or explore in a way that no longer fits neatly inside the walls of your career. At 61 I stopped looking for a full-time teaching job, started creating content on YouTu
Journeys Through History | Historical Travel, Lifestyle, and Life Lessons
More Than History, More Than Travel Journeys Through History isn’t just another historical travel blog. It’s a lifestyle, a philosophy, and a source of life lessons from history. It ’s about stepping into historic places, listening to the stories they hold, and letting those experiences change how you live today. It blends travel philosophy with the richness of the past, showing that the journey is life, and the journey is the goal . Whether you’re exploring the National Mal
Walking Through Time: How to Engage with Places Like a Historian
Plant Hall at the University of Tampa. Originally the Tampa Bay Hotel now home to The Henry Plant Museum, offices and classrooms. (July...
Thoughts on Planning a Historical Trip
Pisa, 2024. This trip to France and Italy set me on my journey to share my experiences of visiting historic sites. There’s a certain...
A Short Review of David McCullough's The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough’s The Pioneers is an engaging, thoroughly researched, and vividly told account of America’s first organized settlement...
America 250 Travel Inspiration: Exploring Washington, D.C. and the Meaning of the Revolution
A Capital Built on an Argument: Exploring Washington, D.C. for America 250 A Revolutionary Landscape Washington, D.C. was not a city of the American Revolution, but it is a city created by it . That distinction matters. Unlike Boston or Philadelphia, where revolution unfolded in streets already crowded with colonial life, Washington was imagined afterward. It was deliberately designed as a physical expression of revolutionary ideals. Power would be visible but constrained. Me
America 250 Travel Inspiration: New York City & the American Revolution
This is travel inspiration; an invitation to explore New York City as a Revolutionary landscape hidden beneath skyscrapers, ferry routes, and neighborhoods that rarely advertise their 18th-century past.
America 250 Travel Inspiration: Walking the Birthplace of the Revolution in Boston
Walking the Spark of a Revolution Paul Revere Statue at Old North Chruch Boston does not let the American Revolution rest quietly in the past. It interrupts your walk. It rises in brick and bell towers. It slips into side streets and burial grounds and harbor winds. Few places in the United States carry Revolutionary memory as densely, or as insistently, as Boston and its surrounding towns. As the nation approaches the Semiquincentennial (America’s 250th anniversary in 2026)
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