(Note: Jeff and I went on this trip together almost six years ago. Recently we decided to each write about it, from our own perspective, and post the stories without seeing each other’s versions first. I had a great time… Read More ›
History 
Pierce Homestead, and why I’d like to be a guide there
President Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire native and our 14th President, was born and raised in Hillsborough. I live one town over from Hillsborough, in the small town of Antrim. The state of New Hampshire has a peculiar relationship with Pierce…. Read More ›
The Slightly Less Traveled Bahamas
If you Google anything regarding staircases in the Bahamas, you end up with descriptions of the Queen’s Staircase in Nassau, which I wrote about last fall here. I’ll get to that in a bit. When Jeff, Paperskater, and I went… Read More ›
Women’s Voices: Meeting Carl Sagan
Actually, I did not meet the great man, but I did talk to him. I knew about Carl Sagan from his TV series Cosmos, and owned the heavily illustrated companion book that was published in 1980. When his fiction novel… Read More ›
Airplane Porn
Last week, my good friend Chris was visiting from northern Canada. I thought that Chris, being an airplane nut, might enjoy seeing a couple of the air museums around Texas. A few co-workers and myself had a business meeting in… Read More ›
Two Saint Marys, Sarah, and the Deep Blue Sea
On a week-long trip to southern France a few years ago, we ended up in the city “Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer“, that is, Saint Marys of the Sea. The legend is that two Marys – the sister of the Virgin Mary (inexplicably… Read More ›
Why Vermont celebrates Black History Month with pride.
Vermont 96.2% Maine 95.5% New Hampshire 95.0% West Virginia 94.3% Iowa 92.9% Idaho 92.1% Wyoming 91.6% Minnesota 90.94% North Dakota 90.9% I was born in Washington DC, and grew up in the area. It was only until I moved to New Hampshire that I noticed something was missing that… Read More ›
Jackman Shore’s leaky pipes…
Lake Franklin Pierce in New Hampshire is a recent lake, in 1926 it was created and has a hydro electric plant at the North and South end. The pipes were going to be replaced, and were half finished when work… Read More ›
History and Chicken in Old Town Spring
Some places become popular because of their atmosphere or their history, not because the food is fantastic. Wunsche Bros. in Old Town Spring, Texas is like that. The restaurant has been on this site for 110 years, and serves up… Read More ›
Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse, or I Can Stop Any Time I Want!
I was reading an online discussion between two friends this morning. An old argument, it centered around having and reading books on an e-reader versus physical books, including making notes, highlights, writing in margins, and so on. Just last week,… Read More ›
