In Honor of My Mentor, Dee
Dee Hicks was my team leader and mentor at University School of Nashville. Before she retired to South Carolina, I tried to soak up as much educational wisdom from her…
Do Pictures Paint One-Thousand Words?
Maybe I am naive, but I can't help wonder: If everyone drove the backroads cross our vast country, maybe we would better understand each others needs and interests? This is…
I’m in the Mood for Pimms
Oh, yum! While editing Rain Dodging, I couldn’t help but notice how often I imbibed a Pimms & Lemonade: Stopping at a quaint pub, I descended three stone steps and sat…
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I just finished final arrangements for an adventure west in 9 days. I will be gone one month but the only thing I have ready is my passport! I will…
Mary of Modena, Rain Dodging’s Queen: Take a Peek!
Duke Humphries reading room, Bodleian, Oxford As I come down the revision home stretch, I would like to remind you, and welcome new readers, of how I came to write Rain…
Anglophilia, a repost from one year ago today
In the Cotswolds Cliffside at Reculver Rousham House and Gardens Anglophilia? Sounds like a disease. However, the definition by Merriam Webster? “Unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English.” …
Pristine Coral Reef Found Off Tahiti Coast
Deep in the South Pacific, scientists have explored a rare stretch of pristine corals shaped like roses off the coast of Tahiti. The reef is thought to be one of…
Anglophilia
This is a re-post from March 21, 2021. Anglophilia? Sounds like a disease. In fact, the definition by Merriam Webster: Unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English. Stratford-on-Avon…
Ode to Cleveland, Part II
Despite the scare of Covid that kept many classmates from attending, vaccinated, I decided early on that I would go to my 50th Shaker Heights High School reunion. Though many of…
Ode to Cleveland
I promised myself when I was 25 years old that I would leave my hometown by 30. I didn’t want to say I had lived and died in Cleveland, Ohio.…