I’d stand at the very stern, leaning on the rail and just watching the churning wake barely impressing itself upon the Caribbean or Atlantic or wherever we happened to be that day.

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning for an upcoming vacation, and one of the things I’ve seriously considered doing is leaving my phone at home.

Come downstairs. Spend. Gamble. Drink. Our room in on the twenty-sixth floor and I can look out and down and see a fairly prominent Starbucks. If the window could open and I had a parachute I could drop down for a coffee.

Today was my day to let a little bit loose. The half-marathon I came to Las Vegas to run isn’t until Sunday — two days off — and Saturday is my take-it-easy, don’t over-do it day.

…this year the mere slight chill, a gentle two degrees below zero, brought out the big crowds, livened up the evening and made the event much more tolerable.

The ground thawed enough this past weekend to turn the wet soil in my vegetable garden. Long time readers of this blog will know full well that when we move into our house in 2005 and did the initial landscaping work, …

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta…wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat…wrap it around your head …