Go West, middle-aged man! Horace Greeley took one of the first stagecoaches into Denver in the 1850s when the place was just a mining camp…
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When I got home from my trip I struggled with the padlock on the gate, finally got a wrench from my car and banged it…
It is the third week of September and I am at Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, getting ready to embark on my first backpacking…
Irene sat in the chair at her hairdressers. She was getting a perm so she'd look good for her upcoming 75th birthday celebration. She was…
Marching for a cause was hardly an innovation in this country by the time the now historic August 1963 March on Washington took place. There…
An out of town guest was visiting for a few days and while we were on the back deck dawdling over a sampler of Ritz…
I'm not sure that William Saroyan, author, playwright, and genius, can be legitimately described as a San Franciscan, but we like to claim him, although…
Ithaca, New York. Next week brings local elections to this college town in the Finger Lakes region of the Empire State. There will be a…
My work site was three flights below ground level, taking me into the bowels of the earth. There, beginning at 6 a.m., I began my…