I’m going to try something out: a series of posts of the past week aiming for posting on Saturday sometime (and yes, I know today is Sunday, but today’s the day I started thinking about it). I’m thinking I’d like to aim between 5-7, but I’d also settle for 3…
I recently spent a week in NW Montana, visiting Glacier National Park four times in the several days I was there. The first stop was one of my favorite places: Kintla Lake. It’s through what we consider the back entrance of Glacier, up very close to the Canadian border and…
It is easy to vacate in a place like Montana. I woke up with the morning light and took my cup of coffee outside with a book, and even later took my laptop out to work on the novel. After all, it’s also easy to be inspired when your scenery…
It should be no surprise to anyone in the mid-Atlantic area that we went through a heatwave. And given the calls from friends and family around the country, much of the rest of the country knew it too. It broke by the end of the weekend, but it was a…
I’ve lived in DC for several years now. One thing I haven’t done in those years is to watch the fireworks on July 4 from the Mall. Sure, I’ve seen the fireworks before. My first year here I went to Arlington, VA to watch the fireworks (and other shows in…
I’m currently taking Italian lessons and have a slightly amusing story for language nerds like me, and figured it might a worthwhile post. I have talked with several people about how there must be a part of one’s brain for foreign languages: this is why when learning a second foreign…