Wildlife
Escaping Winter: Four Glorious Southwestern Arizona Days
The desert has always been special to me. For many the desert seems desolate and barren, but to me it is the Phoenix of landscapes, rising each spring to celebrate the season with glorious, piercing color decorating its foliage.
Travels with Sinbad: Motorcycle Journeys - Part 1
In Australia, the aborigines have a belief that everyone’s existence is a “songline” that runs directly back to the source of all life from wherever they wander. Sometimes that means leaving groups behind and striking out solo.
Travels with Sinbad: Motorcycle Journeys, Part 2
And the adventure continues . . . Creede, Colorado, is just as appealing as I had always imagined—a small historic mining town situated at the mouth of a magnificent red rock canyon.
Travels with Sinbad: Motorcycle Journeys: Part 3
The next morning’s weather did not look promising.
BEST ROADS TRAVELED: Mexico’s Las Pozas – Jungle Fantasy
Outside the town of Xilitla in northern Mexico’s Sierra Gorda, a little known surrealistic architectural masterpiece rises out of the jungle, built by Edward James, an enthusiastic supporter of art and artists.
The Long Game: Elections, Cougars, and Strategy
Cougars know all about playing the long game. I am an older woman who learned decades ago the value of playing the long game, of understanding the advantages of being underestimated, of outlasting your opponents.
BEST ROADS TRAVELED: Junípero Serra’s Missions of the Sierra Gorda
“Oh, the bear went over the mountain . . . to see what he could see,” goes a campfire song of my girlhood—And I’ve been checking out the other side of mountains both real and imagined all my life.
The Spiritual Experience of Awe
Racing on skidoos across the frozen Arctic Ocean, tightly gripping the ropes tying down the pile of supplies we’d need for our expedition to the northern end of Baffin Island, I was awestruck.
A Triple Tribute: Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell
At the edge of the spotlight, not fully illuminated, are women abstract expressionists who significantly enhance our understanding of American art in the mid-20th century. In this post I focus on Helen Frankenthaler.
The Search for Dignity in a World Gone Mad
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an American award-winning essayist. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2018 for her profile of white supremacist and mass murderer Dylann Roof, as well as a National Magazine Award.