Three Good Books
Three books I’ve read recently compelled me to turn their pages rapidly for visits to faraway places: The Boys in the Boat: …
Contrasting Arboretums
In October I visited Arboretums in Dallas and Boston, after previously seeing the National Arboretum in DC. All were beautiful, but I …
Lake Tahoe
From Yosemite, Karen, Joe, Steve and I drove north to Lake Tahoe, the second deepest lake in the United States, after Crater Lake. …
Yosemite National Park
Steve and I usually spend months planning our trips, but this time, lucky us, we left the planning to his sister Karen …
Walking the C&O Towpath
Kathalina Stein and I have walked together every Tuesday morning (whenever we’re both in town) for the last 17 years. We have …
Big D Stereotypes
My parents grew up in Lewisville, Texas, 24 miles north of Dallas, in the early 1900s. “Big D,” then a city of …
The Ness of Brodgar
On a narrow land bridge between two lochs in the Orkney Islands of Scotland is one of the most exciting archeological excavations …
Visit to Berlin
How much can one do in only four days in the capital of Germany? We arrived August 17 from Scotland and departed …
Scotland, August 2014
Steve and I have visited Scotland several times since 1995, when I attended an International Piano Workshop in Glasgow. While he glories in …
Chautauqua 2014: the American West
Once more we were fortunate to be invited to spend a week with Jack and Peg at Chautauqua in western New York. Angela and Henry …