BIG Fish. I had never seen one of these before until coming upon it in the aquarium in Valencia, Spain. It looked like a Monty Python fish to me, like a huge puppet hand. See the finger tips to the…

Sabah.  At the Mesilau Nature Resort, I joined a walk in the forest. The forest was like a green and muddy sauna. We were given high rubber boots to walk through the mud and walking sticks so we would be less…

My first trip to Florida included a drive out to see Cape Canaveral where the space shuttles set off for the moon and elsewhere in the upper atmosphere. I was thinking fondly about the Andy Astronaut picture book I had…

TOP TEN LIST OF MOVIES.  My summer reading list got positive feedback so I thought I would venture again. But this time, it’s a movie list to wile a way the cold, dark days ahead; that is a safe forecast for New England…

Moscow.  The Don Quixote Ballet at the Stanislavsky Theater was pree-krah-snah (awesome/excellent).  At the theater, the women wore mostly dresses. So much so, that I was accosted by a female security guard AFTER passing security. I thought she was going…