City Slicker Definition & Meaning
Life there doesn’t confuse me, but it’s no longer what I’m accustomed to. I’ve become a real city slicker.
Category Archives: Scotland
How do You Get a Cow Across a Firth?
In one corner, it imagines a boat.
Starting Off “Right”
There’s no escaping a year; we’re in it for the whole, well, year.
Swings and Roundabouts
Vowel merges have led multiple people to mistake my tale about seeing the ferry with spotting a fairy or my ponderings about Frodo and Merry as Frodo and Mary.
25 Pedestrians, a Baby, and a Just Eat Rider
Just before they leave my field of view, they look up.
The Cashmere of Grass
I decide that I do believe that King Arthur sat here. It will make the climb worth it.
Ten Albums
I’d time the queue so that the lyric “can’t figure out / how I’m gonna get through the next 10 minutes” played as we arrived at the pitch.
Aberdeen, As I Walked It in 2021
I’ve seen what makes this place valuable, what compels me to call it home.
Dead Baby Seagull
Claire paid no mind to the splotchy coloring and large, hooked beak; to her, it was a duck.
Recommendation: Solstice Sunrise
By six, the sun was already higher in the sky than it ever reaches in our winters.
