In Search of Isis

Said the Kmart clerk today as my Beloved and I checked out: "Oh, I wish it was Friday. I hate working." "I wish I had a j...

Last week, my county historical society offered an unusual challenge: Come in on a certain day, take your pick of ten packets of seeds, pay ...

For several months, I battled unsuccessfully to break up my blog posts into readable paragraphs, utterly mystified as to why all my text was...

"Music, like photography, is a way to interpret the places you've been." -- Richard Olsenius, National Geographic, October ...

What is a nation? Is it a place bounded by unseen lines upon a land or the twining path of a river or the sea? Or is it one people, though t...

"When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, you understand now why you came this way ..." -- Crosby, Stills and Nash ...