Reis Valley and Mudville

About six years ago, I wrote a blog post called "Bob's Trees," after one day, my neighbor Bob told me about the trees near his...

100 years ago this weekend my dad was born. The end of World War I and the end of the pandemic were recent memories, and the Roaring Twentie...

Several years ago, The Economist magazine held an essay-writing contest where you were supposed to answer the question: "Do we need nat...

Our family has been reading a lot of graphic novels over the last year or two. They are mostly fun, some are absolutely brilliant, and some ...

  "Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!"  --Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 Last month, my b...

 Fog--often surrounding ridges and peaks like water surrounding an island--is shown in the following photos, which were taken on eight diffe...

In my 20s, I remember reading an article that lamented the loss of heroes for youth to emulate. It made me ask myself who my hero was. The...