Cultivating Outrage

  Today at the LATimes Festival of Books. Click here for two photos from the event: - John Scalzi and panel - Barbara McQuaid ( Index to a...

Justin Torres spoke at Occidental this evening. I haven't read the book yet, but given the subject matter and the appearance of many of ...

Victor with his mother Queso Relleno Yucateco made by Victor's sister We go to Mérida so often that I  don't usually blog about it, ...

Very young Rodney I've been meaning to write about this for a very long time. T he final impetus was Fiona Hill's  There Is Nothing ...

  At Apple Farm Inn Link to more photos . As always, view the photos individually to see the captions. We went on this short 3-day tour of ...

  As I've always said, I decided in high school that my goal in life was to retire.  And in retirement I wanted to read, write, and trav...

The LATimes ran a lengthy profile of school board book banning activist Sonja Shaw. I dashed off a quick letter about what it seems such fo...

When discussing travels recently, someone asked what was my favorite place. I said, "It depends." For nature,  Costa Rica . For wi...

  Victor and Rodney with the royal palace of Madrid in the background Link to more photos . There are three photo albums in all: Below are l...

The longest story in this blog is about getting a visa for Victor to come to the U.S.  But when I want to send the story to someone, by clic...