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A small distraction: Spring by Mary Oliver

With all the news of Covid-19, we are all in need of some relief from our worry. And, if some of us are self-isolating or …

I know it isn’t the flu, because we ended up in the Emergency Room the other day with the kiddo, and they swabbed his nose. …

I had some big goals for 2016. Most of the goals were reasonable, but still some entirely unreasonable ones snuck in. These were the goals …

I love a nice cocktail: the kind with quality liquor and good balance. As big as the cocktail revolution has been in the past few years, …

A Top Ten List of Best Things About the Savannah Film Festival, or What I Learned This Year When I Didn’t Sleep and Cried Every Day.

Red Rocks is an incredible formation of sandstone 15 miles outside of Las Vegas. One of the best things about a trip to Red Rocks …

The Savannah Film Fest was this last week: an eight-day film extravaganza in the always quaint downtown. This same town which rolled out the red …

In a few weeks, we are going to Red Rocks outside Las Vegas to climb. Not much for gambling, we will be subsidized by all the …

I had not slept well. The first few nights of sleeping on the ground were great, straightening out my back in ways I didn’t know …