Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
In a perfect world, every school child would be able to explore existing ruins of an ancient civilization. If they did, they would understand how astonishingly cool they, and all humans, are. In my lifetime, I have been lucky enough to climb through Tikal in Guatemala, Machu Picchu in Peru, Diocletian's Palace in Croatia, the [...]
A short Uber ride in Birmingham provided both the means to the National Civil Rights Monument and the meaning such places exist. “Do you know where we could take a civil rights walking tour?” my mom asked William, our driver. “You’d have to go to Montgomery for that,” he said while he zipped us along [...]
The pungent package arrived without a return address, but I knew exactly where it came from. Nick Asashon has been sending me miner's garlic every year since 2016, when he mailed me the first batch and connected me to Colver, Pennsylvania, a little mining town I used to love to visit, but haven't seen since [...]
Conveniently located right between me and my oldest daughter, the Grand Canyon stands as both a perfect meeting point for two people who really, really needed to see each other and an age-old monument to Mother Nature's majesty. I mean, really! We drove up on a brisk morning a few weeks ago and initially had [...]
That confounding Wisconsin Spring spilled dense fog all over the runways Saturday morning and torpedoed our plans for a Young Eagle Flight, but we still had an excellent adventure. That's how cool EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, is. First, we accidentally poked our heads into the maintenance hangar and, instead of being sternly rebuked for [...]