by mike | Dec 23, 2021 | California, Life, Travel, Uncategorized |
Yosemite is one of this country’s most amazing national parks. This post first ran in 2018. I arrived in California to stay over forty-eight years ago. Jacqueline, my bride, did the same over three decades past. Yet neither of us, during all that time, set foot in...
by mike | Oct 28, 2021 | Books, Movies, Non-Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
I probably wouldn’t survive for a day in the jungle! What this man did was remarkable. In 1981 a young Israeli man, Yossi Ghinsberg, went backpacking around the globe in search of adventure. During a trek through a minimally explored jungle in Bolivia, he found more...
by mike | Oct 14, 2021 | Books, Films About Writers, Humor, Life, Movies, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Romance, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing |
Authors who come out of their writing caves do have some interesting life experiences. This post first ran in 2018. In 1996 Frances Mayes, a writer, book reviewer, teacher, and foodie extraordinaire, published a memoir—replete with recipes—called Under the Tuscan Sun....
by mike | Jul 8, 2021 | Ghosts, Life, Museums, Native Americans, Travel, Uncategorized |
Lots of amazing things to see in the Four Corners region. I first presented this post in 2017. The Animas River, part of the Colorado River System, begins high in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado and winds all the way down to its confluence with the San Juan River...
by mike | Apr 1, 2021 | Humor, Life, Movies, Spirituality, Travel, Uncategorized |
Traffic roundabouts notwithstanding, Sedona is a pretty cool place. This post first ran in 2017. Sedona is a funky town in central Arizona, one of our favorite places to visit. Sedona is also a 2011 indie film, a comedy-drama that, unfortunately, not a whole lot of...
by mike | Mar 18, 2021 | Life, Movies, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
For me, this post is one of the most meaningful I’ve ever presented. It first ran in 2017. “Dammit, I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.” When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) uttered those words forty years ago in the classic...
