Half a day in Cork

We didn’t plan our time well and gave ourselves 3 minutes to eat the buffet breakfast we had each paid €13 ($15) for. Instead of eating, we collected food into take-home containers we had saved from the day before and ran out of the hotel with rollerbags and shoulder bags, and paper bags of breakfast […]

Ancient Ireland

This particular region is packed with neolothic sites and points of interest.

Wintry Providence

Like those early settlers here, I didn’t let a nasty winter day get me down.

black odyssey at Trinity Rep

{All photo credits except the image above are by Mark Turek, courtesy Trinity Repertory Company.} While I was in Providence, Will and I attended a show at Trinity Repertory Company, just a few blocks from where I stayed at the Biltmore hotel. Black odyssey plays from January 3 through February 3, and if you get […]

November friends

Friends made the cloudy days brighter and the cold days warmer.

Smoke over the Columbia

Smoke in the air reminds me that the threat is close to me as well.

Mini RT Series – three

Pop quiz: what is Oregon’s state fossil? Metasequoia, of course.

Saline Courthouse and buffalo

The Cherokee actually have two buffalo herds: the TV buffalo and the wild buffalo.

Gilcrease Museum

I tend to love the paintings best in any museum, but this one had many other impressive displays.

Oklahoma Vacation

I am hoping to improve my perception of Oklahoma before I go.