http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDvu6wz9qF4 James Randi (the Amaz!ng Randi) is a family friend, and well known critical thinker and skeptic. He leads not only a very interesting life, but also is a most incredible storyteller about that life. I am sharing here a… Read More ›
This from a few years ago: A few days before the New Year’s weekend, I got a frantic call from one of my contractors. He had booked a hunting trip for another client at the CF Ranch outside of Alpine,… Read More ›
BIGFOOT LIVES AMONG US!! DEFINITIVE PROOF!! Skeptics reading this blog might think to themselves “Surely if definitive proof of BIGFOOT had been found it would be the lead story on CNN, not hidden away in an obscure blog.” I say,… Read More ›
Last year I took a Skeptours cruise with two dozen friends, around the Mediterranean. Our embarkation was from Istanbul. Istanbul has been on my bucket list for decades, and was a place that I never thought I would get to… Read More ›
Kitty and I are off on another adventure. We haven’t seen each other since last fall, so I’m looking forward to catching up and hearing all her stories about her visit to France and Switzerland earlier this month. We are… Read More ›
Springtime in Paris is synonymous with love. Or is it? Here a sad Parisian suitor asks me “What?” (probably “What went wrong?”) after he is rejected. Monsieur Grenouille lives a happy life at the Jardins du Plantes, where tourists and locals… Read More ›
I like to call myself an adventurous eater, right up until I turn on an episode of Andrew Zimmern’s travel show “Bizarre Foods” and watch him scarf down sheep earlobes, or chunks of raw camel that’s been sitting unrefrigerated in… Read More ›
John Singer Sargent was probably the best known portrait painter of his time. He was talented enough to make a living painting the famous and the rich. He painted a American President and English Royalty. While his most famous painting… Read More ›
All through life, we have people who help us. Being social, tribal creatures, living in a complex dangerous world, most of us cannot be 100% self-sufficient. We all have lifesavers. As a child, your lifesavers are your parental unit. Beyond… Read More ›
Many people don’t remember what life was like before Wal Mart. People that live in Antrim or Hillsborough New Hampshire don’t have a Wal Mart nearby to visit. If you need something, you visit the Village Discount Center. The Village… Read More ›
