Let me tell you about one of my best friends! Jackie and I met our sophomore year of high school at Walsh Jesuit, and it was a friendship that was just easy from the start. We worked on tech crew together, passed notes during chemistry lectures, binged Dawson's Creek after school, wore corsets to a Broadway show in Chicago on a show choir trip (far from our last Jesuit school fashion offense), danced in the rain in a bamboo forest in Williamsburg, filled Frappuccino bottles w

I have written about plenty of places around the globe, but I have yet to share the one that I've spent more time in than all the others...

You likely imagine bagpipes, kilts, green hills, and the Loch Ness monster when you think of the Scottish Highlands, and you are exactly...