precious child's breath

Mahala celebrates her birthday on September 1 - this year I will be with her in London to celebrate together. Can't wait to be with my one and only spawn and favorite being of my life.

Issa’s digital decoupage of Mahala’s art

Numerology charts claim being born on the first day makes you a self-starter with very innovative ways of creating opportunity. Never afraid to be the first to try something new. 

Determination and endurance are powerful and a great help to get through times of struggle to reach success. As solar systems are aligning in the Universe our planets are aligning with our sun. So too are Mahala's life years and numbers lining up - 1, 2, 3, 11.

Mahala birthday girl - Earth angel? NYC bug!

Fonab Castle and Pitlochry Dam, Scotland

In late July wonder | wander | women enjoyed a visit from family - my nephew had turned 14 earlier in the year and we were celebrating. As a present, my aunt took him and my cousin to the UK. 

Fonab Castle, with dining pod

I was excited to meet them in London and ride up with them to Scotland, where we walked our happy feet off through Edinburgh's most famous castles. 

As an extra treat, we went with some dear friends up into the beautiful and ancient Cairngorms area of the Scottish Highlands. We stayed at the Fonab Castle Hotel, a gorgeous Victorian castle with phenomenal views.

blast from the past

wonder | wander |women have been on Blogger since 2014 and only joined Medium in 2020. Separately we have been writing on other platforms since the early 2000s - when only a few of them were available. 

Many of them have since folded and given up their ghosts, yet here we remain slugging on word for word, idea for idea, interest for interest. 

mural by Carolina Ro at Kate's Paperie, Soho NYC

In the meantime lives have gotten busy once again post lockdown and we thought it would be a great time to resurrect some of our past posts that have yet to get to a wider audience. Be prepared to be roped into our latest catch up project.