Shanghai: See the future. Not just for your child and grandchildren. Now. Shanghai runs along both shores of the Yangtze River. On one side, it seems like the nineteenth century, but on the other shore you glimpse what may be Read More …
In the Air over Japan We’re flying over Sendai, Japan right now, and it occurs to me that this is a much larger world than we imagine, and a much smaller one. We’ve flown 6,500 air miles since we took Read More …
I’m in downtown Fort Worth on a rainy day, and I walk by this beautifully renovated Square on the way to their courthouse. I stop by the Sid Richardson Museum, which is full of Remington paintings. I don’t like his Read More …
We went to Paris during the strikes there. We do things like that all the time. Istanbul during Ramadan. The Middle East during terrorist attacks. In two months, we’re going to China with all this going on about North Korea Read More …
We had a great trip traveling to Cabo this past week. We went with our granddaughter. We also allowed her mom and dad to go. Of course, Marilyn came along. South Africa Marilyn was busy last week. Susie and Greg Read More …
Papal Blessings When my wife wrote that Marilyn was blessed, Mark A. Callahan wrote me: “Truthfully, it is blessed. Pope Francis offers a blessing to all present and their possessions (including any religious articles purchased at the gates of the Read More …
Chicken and Comics Last weekend my sons, Will and David, and I went to Austin, Texas for the American MotoGP. When we got into town Saturday our first stop was Lucy’s for fried devil eggs and beer. We then stopped at Read More …
Writing Lesson I’m writing chapter three of The Artist, and I learned a hard lesson today. I’ve begun training for a four day mountain hike in Big Bend Park, and I’ve tripled my workouts. I started the day with a 45 minute Read More …
As well as writing such lengthy literary classics as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy turned his hand to writing stories for younger readers. Most of the works in his collection Fables and Fairy Tales, translated here by Leo Read More …
Melinda made a great video of our trip to Tangiers. I hope you like it!
Melinda writes about the videos we’ve made of our travels: This year I bought a real camera. Not the newest version of the iPhone, but a real camera – one with a base and the ability to change lenses depending Read More …
I took this as I was flying into Amarillo Amarillo’s Cowboy Poet While in Amarillo, Texas this weekend for my 40th class reunion at Amarillo High School, I met a cowboy poet-I’ll call him Warren. Warren doesn’t really intend to Read More …
I tried to tell them, but they wouldn’t listen. Here’s a Rule: You don’t cut in front of Nuns at The Church Of The Holy Sepulchre. You’ll go to hell.
At the place John the Baptist is believed to have baptized Jesus at the Jordan River
