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.…
Bliss, Part II: A Week at the Beach
Who doesn’t feel rejuvenated from a week at the beach? Careful in the Alabama Covid cesspool, we rent a cottage in a lesser populated area of Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan,…
Bread Loaf School of English
Years and years ago, after dropping my daughter off at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, for a 2-week high school summer debate camp, I went exploring graduate campuses for…
Read the First Pages!
Since I am finally returning to Rain Dodging for revision, perhaps you would enjoy the opening pages? Chapter One: Getting There “Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ’ere the irrevocable moment…
How Rain Dodging Came to Be
Two blogs ago, I wrote about my current writing progression for Rain Dodging. But where did the book’s idea come from? Working on my second master’s degree, I was blessed to…
Heaven on Earth: The Art Institute of Chicago
Part II of my blog about my adventure in Chicago last week focuses on my day at the Art Institute of Chicago: When I made online reservations from home for…
“Chicago, Chicago, that Toddling Town”
Chicago, Chicago, that Toddling Town by Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart, popularized by Frank Sinatra Chicago, Chicago that toddling townChicago, Chicago I will show you aroundBet your bottom dollar you…