I didn’t have a horse in last weekend’s race. But it was still important to me to watch, and I watched with baited breath until American Pharoah crossed the finish line and let out a yell. For the first time in 37 years (and the first time in my lifetime)…
If it hasn’t come up yet, I am a bit of an Ernest Hemingway fan. I wasn’t always, but an appreciate grew, beginning in high school. And when I started reading those stories and books outside of the standard required reading. So when I was asked what I wanted to…
Bangkok is a busy metropolis, full of people and tourists hurrying from one place to another amid the soaring buildings, honking cars, all while under a scalding sun. But among the harried neighborhoods stand serene temples that transport you into another time. And I don’t mean they take you back…
Okay, a small treasure trove. Last weekend I was out of town visiting family and staying at my grandmother’s house. While there, we came across an old scrapbook of my grandfather’s full of photographs he took during his tour in the Mediterranean shortly after World War II. I’d found out…
Like so many other kids, growing up one of the many things I wanted to be was an astronaut. I was fascinated by the planets (Venus and Saturn were my favorites), and by the stars and those amazing photos of Earth from space. I used to read our archived National…
You know that saying, “you learn something new every day”? A lot of the time it’s very true, and I find myself thinking that after learning something new. Today it’s happened early, so there may be several something news learned. I’m reading Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, and even…