In one day, Mike and I had accrued over 7000 steps traipsing through two international airports, at last settling into our seats for the...

What’s that aroma? March 15, 2022 It was our first winter in Arizona, 1995. I basked in the balmy weather unlike the harsh Midwest cold...

Einsteinian Years January 10, 2022 In the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein determined that time is relative—in other words, the...

Did Einstein ever measure time against flowing water? The wooded forest near our house was our favorite playground. We were warned to...

I Disagree: Life is A Gift, Not a Trial November 16, 2021 My initial impulse was to slap the speaker, but restraining myself, I nodded...

Where do you go to pray? October 20, 2021 Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and...

You Are the Best of Friends! May 16, 2022 Yes, I Am Still Here Travel, anniversary, surgery, illness, more travel. I feel as if I have...

ADA in Europe The abbey of the Mont Saint Michel dominates a small piece of land in the region of Normandy, France, sitting high on the...

April 21 – May 2, 2023, Days 11 – 21 Spain "Where have you been?" you ask. This will bring you up to date. Ignore the sketchy prose. And...

June 14, 2023 The touch startled me. Mike and I were enjoying a tour of Spain and Portugal, delighted by the friendliness of the people...

More Lessons from the Iberian Peninsula 1492 was a very bad year for Spain, plummeting them into hundreds of years of decline. (It was...

Anyone for a dry sandwich? May 25, 2022 Over the past 30 years, splitting time between Arizona and Chicago, I am constantly reminded of...

November 8, 2021 A hectic two-week jaunt to the Midwest left me exhausted and anxious. A frustrating feature of the aging body is its...

July 6, 2021 I love Mexico On a street in Mexico, I leaned against the tailgate of my car outside the grocery market, waiting for ED to...

. . .loneliness didn’t exist as a word or concept in our culture until the 19th century. It is not a coincidence . . .— This One Wild and...

Words, Words, Words! "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."—Thomas Jefferson Writers who...

October 5, 2021 We moved to Arizona for sunshine and dry heat, driven away by the depressing gray clouds of Chicago which hovered low...

July 9, 2021 Leaving again? Just home from Chicago two days, we left for a short vacation in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, on the Sea of...

I’m Peopled Out A wise friend, reviewing his hike on a short portion of the Appalachian Trail, declared that he had underestimated the...

Standing in the Window The disturbing racket of an argument on the street reached our third-floor hotel window late one night in Lisbon,...