What is the most surreal place I have ever visited? (I like this question.) Imagination, uncontrolled by reason, truly characterizes my experience in London. I’m not writing about Brexit; I’m writing about walking around a place for the first time but…

My mother and father and I were all those left living in our family home by the time I was ten years old.  My older siblings had moved out and onward to live their own lives. To lessen our dwelling on the obvious…

“I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.” ― Roy Chapman Andrews I enjoyed reading Dragon Hunter, Charles Gallenkamp’s biography of Roy Chapman Andrews. He was the one who made all sorts of fantastic dino discoveries in the Gobi…

In the Washington, DC area, there is a beach with this sculpture in the sand called “The Awakening.” I imagine it is a visitor from the Greek pantheon of Gods, turned to stone whilst observed by mere mortals such as…

It happened again. I got something stuck in my head telling me I was a wimp. Why do I let these notions gnaw at me? I can only take so much of that. It was time to take steps. I…