And now, for something completely different...

After some semi-existential frustrations in the last couple of years (mostly career-related), I've begun reading a bit about Stoic philo...

As is tradition, I picked a book to read when we headed out west last month.  We were going to be in and out of Jackson, so I selected  We D...

I picked up  Paris in the Present Tense  in the audio book section of the library one day while I was browsing.  There are a lot of Mark Hel...

Our around-town activities in 2025 were substantially curtailed by the fact that we were only "around town" for 7 months of 2025! ...

I got on a kick of mysteries several years ago now - which has waxed and waned over time - but Tana French's  In The Woods  has always b...

I can see why  Cutting For Stone  was so wildly popular upon its release.  What's not to like?  It's easy to read (or in my case, li...

By 2024, two things had happened: first, since I had long ago stopped blogging about my fun outings, I mostly stopped keeping the ticket stu...

Three years into the after-times, and live had gotten pretty much back to normal.  Isn't is amazing how quickly that happened?  Here...

The years roll on!  Before we know it, we're into... 2022   Sea of Cortez  - A & L, longtime friends and mentors, needed a couple of...

The recap continues: 2021   Colorado  - as 2020 rolled into 2021, we weren't about to forego our annual ski trip.  We had planned a thre...