I told someone I had seen “spinning bunnies” while enjoying the Wool Weekend tour (various alpaca and sheep farms host vendors over the holiday weekend), they laughed and asked if it were like “cat juggling”. No. So, I thought I… Read More ›
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London with the Boys
Part 4 of the Blood and Guts Tour I had booked in the Green Park Hilton in London because I had accumulated enough points for one of the three nights we were staying in the city. It is in the… Read More ›
Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Just Plain Weird: Information at the Library
Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Just Plain Weird: Information at the Library.[i] “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.” ― Neil Gaiman In 2003, former Attorney General of the United States, Ed Meese,… Read More ›
What are Your Books?
Last weekend, I was updating my Collectorz software, adding two books that I finished reading last week (The Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years by Philip Jenkins,… Read More ›
Wool Weekend New Hampshire
It’s almost time for WOOL WEEKEND! The official name is the “Wool Arts Tour” but for the past 5 years I’ve just called it “wool weekend.” Locations in the general area of my lake cabin host vendors of wool, and… Read More ›
Visiting Chislehurst Caves in England
Except they are not really caves. Chiselhurst has a 22-mile long network of quarries, where soft chalk and flint has been mined for hundreds of years. The site is part of an independent Heritage Trail, rather than part of a… Read More ›
Traveling Israel: Old Jerusalem and the Holy Selpuchre
Dateline: Jerusalem 1846 On this Good Friday the Latin priests arrived with their white linen altar-cloth to find that the Greeks had got there first with their silk embroidered cloth. The Catholics demanded to see the Greeks’ firman, their decree… Read More ›
Traveling in Israel: The Temple Mount
When you’re in Jerusalem, it’s not always easy to visit the Temple Mount. As a non-Muslim, you can’t go during the month of Ramadan. You can’t go during prayer times. Sometimes, they won’t let any non-Muslims in at all. We… Read More ›
Parisian glass, or a Frenchman’s trash is my treasure
When I travel to Paris, it’s always on a strict budget. However, I also like to shop and bring something home. I found hidden in the Marais district antiques area a shop that is filled with very affordable “treasures”. Still,… Read More ›
Traveling Israel: Masada and the Dead Sea
I didn’t have any expectations of Israel, since I had never thought much about traveling there. The only books I had read about the area didn’t have anything to do about visiting (The Peace to End All Peace: The Fall… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 