Twelve hours of driving, 190 miles and $38.00 of gas provided my husband and I all we needed for a Sunday Drive over a road we hadn’t traversed in 40 years. A drive to Petrolia…
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I’ve started walking my dog down the middle of the street because otherwise I wouldn’t walk my dog at all. Over the decades I’ve had half a dozen dogs, and this one, Sweetie, is the…
When my daughter was in high school she announced one day that she was getting a tattoo. I looked levelly at her over my coffee cup and told her that if she got a tattoo…
My cousin wanted to be in Paris for her 75th birthday, which falls on New Year’s Eve. Only six months apart in age we grew up together in Los Angeles. Part of a very close…
There’s little to laugh at in 2026. Yet humor is more vital than ever, even if comic barbs and palliatives aren’t enough to stop the U.S. invasion of Greenland. Ironically, insane American adventures stock the…
Hello, good evening and welcome everyone to our annual celebration of ourselves and our self worth and our goals and achievements. But first of all, to start things off, let’s stand, all of you! —…
A friend nearly fell off her scuffed-up Birkenstocks when I told her I admired Marjorie Taylor Greene. Given the appalled horror of her response, I feared the fatal rupture of our decades-long friendship. No, I…
There is no understanding 20th century America without being acquainted with the nation’s mid-century interstate highway expansion. The massive cross-country freeway linkage was the crowning achievement of President Eisenhower’s eight years in office, and has…
Three Short Geographic Sequential Portraits Illustrating the Universal Monotony Of All History I (Quang Tri, Republic of Vietnam, 1967) In the ditch right side of the road going west near Cam Lo one hardened (as…