Cultivating Outrage

I've never understood the common complaint that the news is mostly bad news. One of the requirements for something to be newsworthy is b...

Given my interests in linguistics, higher education, and Mayan culture, I would have to read this book. I would usually wait for it to be av...

  Quick visit to the Huntington today. With my aching hip, I couldn't walk all around the gardens, so we saw them mainly from the tram....

The U.S. Capitol Link to more photos .  (View the photos individually to read the captions.) We took this tour  of some places around the Di...

  Link to more photos (View the photos individually to read the captions.) We took a two-week tour of Italy . It went pretty well. The weat...

  We took a two-day tour to Julian, Anza-Borrego, Pechanga and Temecula. The forecast called for some rain, but fortunately, it only rained...

I wrote this on Facebook one evening: Trump and Musk are deplorable. Hillary was always right about this: "You know, ... you could put ...

It started with a bang... literally: A car hit me as I was walking across the street in January 2024.  This, along with arthritis, has left ...

  Abarrotes is Spanish for groceries. Such small stores are common in Yucatán, frequently named for the owner or the neighborhood. I have n...

  Really? President Trump again?! I'm depressed. The first time around, I called him the worst president ever .  And the worst part is t...