Far From Kansas

Two summers ago I spent two weeks of vacation doing laundry. And I loved it. This was one of the hardest and best vacations I've ever ha...

I wrote this in February and then sat on it trying to decide it if it was what I wanted to say or not; whether or not I'd said too much....

Is it just me or does your brain also block out 2020? For example, when I started to write this I thought, "Last year I went to Ireland...

Stumbling Stones, or Stolpersteine ( S truikelsteentjes in Dutch) , are something I just learned about despite being here for years and havi...

I heard Dr. Fauci say there were 525,000 COVID-19 deaths (in the US) the other day.  Obviously this wasn't an exact figure and with the ...

To quote a fortune cookie (or, supposedly Confucius according to the interwebs),  "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you ...

 I've been working from home, like millions of people, since March. Like most people, I didn't expect it to last very long and so I ...

Today is Thursday. No one expects magical things to happen tomorrow. The last day of May was on a Thursday this year and no one expected the...

I've been to a few places, done some stuff, seen a sight or two...met some folks along the way. I have had a a couple of small-world enc...

We've had a couple storms hit here that are big enough to get names.  Last weekend was Ciara and this weekend is Denis.  Winds of 120km/...