A Visit to Notre-Dame Just Before the Fire
We didn’t intend to visit Notre-Dame during our 30th anniversary tour trip. We’d been there many times before, and had planned to take the train to Reims that morning (Saturday, April 6, 2019) to...
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Can Houston Rockets Choke City 2 turn into Clutch City 2?
Disclaimer right up front: I am biased. I had Rockets season tickets for the great Hakeem Olajuwon’s entire career, and saw every game of the two championship playoff runs. And I agree the old...
Grand Canyon – Elves Chasm and other Waterfalls
Previous Post: Grand Canyon – Bright Angel Trail April 12 It is hard to describe sleeping and waking up on the banks of the Colorado River inside the Grand Canyon. I awoke a couple...
bookrev: Hardcase by Dan Simmons
From the chameleon writer of many genres, a good detective novel Dan Simmons writes Science Fiction (he won the Hugo award for Hyperion in 1989). Dan Simmons writes Horror (Bram Stoker Award, Carrion Comfort)....
bookrev: You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
It ain’t LAMB, but it’s funny Christopher Moore sets the bar high with his writing. Very few books written these days are laugh out loud funny. When I read Mr. Moore’s LAMB, I got...