I’m sure there should be a rule about blogging a trip before I have finished blogging about a previous trip, i.e., Greece, but here we are. We live such a glamorous lifestyle — this summer alone we have Greece, To The Moon burn, Grand Canyon, placement trip to Cherokee Farms, minor surgery — that it’s […]
The other night our friends Marc and Mary Frances were over, and after dinner Marc suggested we find some lame movie to watch and goof on. We ended up going with my suggestion of Sharknado, and I have some thoughts. First of all, if you’re not familiar with Sharknado, you need to be. It — […]
It’s Wednesday, and I’m on an Air France 777 somewhere over Caen, heading back to ATL. On Friday we were in Rome. As you know, Vatican City is an independent state. It used to be its own kingdom, but when Italy was united in 1870 the Holy See lost all its temporal property; Pope Pius […]
And we’re back. Wednesday, Florence. From the Ponte Vecchio, we hiked over to Il Duomo, the central cathedral. Known as Il Duomo (“The Dome”), the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore has become the symbol of Florence itself. Started in the 1200s, it wasn’t finished until Brunelleschi designed and constructed the dome in the 1400s. […]
You remember Lottie Moon, don’t you? She was the closest thing we Baptists had to a saint and/or martyr. She selflessly devoted her life to bringing the Word of God to the heathen Chinee, working her fingers to the bone for those little yellow children, and eventually dying for her efforts. Every Christmas we had […]
This morning we headed down to Coney Island. I’ll explain why in a minute. The train went out over the East River and slowed to a crawl, so I was able to get a shot of the Brooklyn Bridge, and if you look very closely you can see the Statue of Liberty in the far […]
You thought there were a lot of photos yesterday? Today we went to the Museum of International Folk Art. We’ve been there before, on our Cross Country Caper back in 2013, and I’ll be repeating some of my observations from then. That first time, I was unaware that they encourage you to take photographs until […]
We have arisen at an ungodly hour so that we can make an early flight to El Paso. Yes, we’re on the road again, and you may very well wonder why, if this series is entitled Santa Fe 18, we are flying to El Paso when Santa Fe has a perfectly cromulent airport. Allow me […]
M. T. Anderson is one of my favorite authors, young adult or otherwise. His serious works, like Feed or The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, will radically alter the way you perceive what you thought was established reality. His comic works, like Whales on Stilts and Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits […]
Last Friday I had occasion to visit Peachtree Publishers in Atlanta and meet their president Margaret Quinlin. She gave me a copy of their newest big publication, Fault Lines in the Constitution: the framers, their fights, and the flaws that affect us today, by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson. It is a triumph and this […]