Ruthie Lanigan
Stories of Life

We left Brussels, Belgium on Saturday morning heading for Amsterdam. We had a couple stops and a couple revelations along the way. We...

Day 2 in Brussels started out with a very light breakfast at a coffee shop in our hotel. The coffee and pastries were amazing and the...

Time for another Minigan's Travels story. This year we are doing it a little different. We flew into Frankfurt today and immediately...

Summer Solstice. The longest day and shortest night of the year. Today, I felt the Universe's tilt and had a great day! Especially...

Porto is wine country. And it is beautiful. We hung out in Porto for a couple of days and enjoyed the hell out of ourselves. We walked...

Years ago I watched a movie named The Way. It was a story about a dad who went to France to get the remains of his son who was killed...

Peniche to Coimbra Heading up the coast, we decided to stop in a small fishing village named Peniche. Peniche is exactly as described - a...

It's been close to a year since we were in Portugal so I thought it was time to write about Portugal. We flew in to Lisbon and...

Saturday, May 1st of 2021 was my first yoga class. Well, my first in a long time. I had only tried practicing yoga a couple other times...

I love Springtime! It's the beginning of new things. Fresh starts. Sunshine! Outdoor activities. Today I was outside burning bushes...

There are so many things I want my grandchildren to know. I’m going to attempt to talk about the ones that I think are most important but...

St. Louis, MO When we lived in St. Louis, Jim and I went to the zoo often. We've taken our kids, our grandkids and also gone by...

I'm really looking forward to 2022! There are so many things I want to accomplish and things I want to learn. 2021 was a good year for...

Magic of a Nashville Christmas

As most of you know I started a yoga practice the beginning of May. It has been transformational for me and I now do yoga as often as I...