In the days leading up to the 2021-2022 Green Bay Packers season, I read a biography of Vince Lombardi that I found in (of all places) a book store in lovely Bastrop, Texas (the...
Introduction We were first introduced to Elisabet Ney through a book given to us by our friend Steve. The book is A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor. It is historical fiction around...
Of all the many places we visited in Russia, Saint Petersburg is the one we wish we had more time, and will hopefully return to again. Three days is just not enough; I doubt...
If you’ve been to a convention in Austin and entered the Convention Center from Trinity Street, you’ve probably seen stars in the sidewalk with a name on them. You may have walked over a...
Of the 50 Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs, 44 have survived. On our trip to Russia, we saw nineteen of the forty-four. We saw ten of them when in the Kremlin Armory in Moscow (where...
Though my heritage is a good portion Native American, no one would take me for anything other than white. Both of my parents grew up close to dirt poor in Oklahoma (formerly known as...
The previous article on our series about Russia contains the translation from Russian to English of the main guide I got from our visit to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in...
In July 2019 I had the privilege to visit Victory Park and the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russia. Like many of the places in Russia there was little English translation;...
During the Siege of Leningrad September 1941 through January 1944, more that 600,000 people died, most from starvation. For comparison, the total casualties for the United States in World War II were approximately 419,000....
