This isn’t a typical Halloween post, but it is about hallowed ground. The original meaning of Halloween is All Hallows Eve, the holy evening before All Saint’s Day on November 1. The fun side of the holiday came from pagan autumn rituals. In this post, I return to the hallowed […]
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Uber Convert
Kansas City is a driving town. Except for a few corridors, it is difficult to use public transportation to navigate our metropolitan area. When my husband and I first moved here, we lived in an apartment just a few short blocks from one of the main north-south routes, and we […]
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Random Photo: Summer Visit in Virginia
Now that we know where most of our boxes are after our recent move, I decided to open a box of photographs and post about a random photo. My selection wasn’t entirely random. Summer is drawing to an end, and I told myself I would use the first snapshot I […]
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A Tale of Two Trunks
When I went away to college at age seventeen, I took my mother’s college trunk with me. She had been given the trunk when she went to college in 1951. When she gave it to me in 1973, it had sat in the unfinished part of the basement in my […]
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Not So Random Photos: Spring Break 2003
Most of my photos are now packed away in boxes and would be difficult to rummage through. So I decided not to use a random photo for this post. Instead, I deliberately sought the oldest pictures we had in digital format on our PC—it’s much easier to search a PC […]
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Tenth Anniversary Celebration in the Virgin Islands
Today, November 26, 2018, is our 41st wedding anniversary. I’ve been on a “forty years ago” kick recently, and so I started wondering about our first wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, I have no memory of the day nor of any celebration of our first year of marriage. November 26, 1978, was […]
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My First “Adult” Thanksgiving
Today, November 21, 2018, is Stuffing Day. So it is appropriate to write about Thanksgiving dinners. Forty years ago, on Thanksgiving Day 1978, my husband and I had the first Thanksgiving meal in which we had a part in the planning and preparation. I think we brought a couple of […]
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A Scary Vacation: Falling in the Grand Canyon
A friend recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. “The ranger told us only seven people had died in the park this year,” she told me. “I thought seven was a lot!” A quick Google search showed me that an average of twelve people die in the Grand […]
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A Visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
I’ve written before about the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. It is a wonderful museum, but it is nothing compared to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I’ve visited other museums as well (see here and here), but they also are shadows of the Rijksmuseum. About the only museums I’ve spent much […]
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Things I Learned About My Sister During Our Summer Vacation
I’ve written several posts about the cruise (see here, here, and here) we took this summer with my sister and her husband. I really enjoyed the opportunity to spend some concentrated time with her, something she and I have not had many chances to do during our adult lives. I […]
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