If only there had been a video camera present—I would have gone viral on YouTube. Imagine. I am exiting my car, heel catches, I plunge to the concrete—along with the gallon...

The idea is…if I work very very hard at writing interesting blogs and take many strange and wonderful photos for your viewing pleasure, surely someone among you will find a way...

Is there really something wrong with me? I love my family and a few friends. I’m interested in the goings-on of quite a few people I know and many I don’t...

Nothing to do with travel but since the post ended up on this blog and since these women are two of my heroes it will stay. I wouldn’t be roaming around the...

My fortunate grandchildren have first-rate parents and just the right mix of grandparents. The one with the pool, the one with the lake, the one who made all of the special...

There is a trip to be made when I come home to northern Minnesota. It is about who I was and am, made to remind myself how important this place is...

One Minnesota story per day…maybe. Today is about the wild dead deer of Minnesota and a sick dog!  Buddy, Robert and Marsha’s dog has IBD, inflammatory bowel disease, for which there...

The question continues to be…how to approach my last—of three?—big life tasks of these next (and last) 20 years. Before that it was all about raising children and working and paying bills...

 Saturday, April 9 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/world/africa/10ivory.html?hpThings are not good in Cote d’Ivoire which in its heyday was called “The Paris of Africa.” The battles between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are turning...

Paul Theroux has a brilliant piece in the Times travel section today. Why We Travel.  And, as usual, travel addict Theroux gets it right. It is about knowing and feeling the places...