Time Machine
It’s taken me a couple of days to realize that N616JA is not an airplane – it’s a time machine. It’s a bit smaller on the inside than the […]
Oklahoma!
When the sky opens up over eastern Oklahoma, the late afternoon sun lights up an endless string of farm ponds like small round diamonds thrown carelessly across a deep green […]
Quilting Capital of America
Well, long story short, I’m pleased to say we’re in Paducah. Part of it is that I’m pleased at how a near weather-induced series of airline travel misadventures managed to […]
Meet Me in Saint Louis
[Edited a bit since first post, which I wrote, um, rather quickly] The plan for the day was SFO->ORD->PAH, but as they say, the best laid plans… The crew on […]
Julie
Hey, so – remember back in January when I said I was off to Louisville, Kentucky and would explain later? Uh, yeah – never did that, did I? So let […]
Turkey Shoot
Ah, Earth Day. What better to do than rise before dawn and stroll through the countryside with a friend, marvelling at the wonders of nature and admiring the beauty of […]
Homeward Bound
It’s always the tail end of a trip that gets lost, isn’t it? In Amundsen’s “To the South Pole”, he devotes 284 pages of narration to the southbound journey, and […]
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
You know how I worried about Oberlin and Kenyon’s glorious spring days lulling Miranda into a false sense of Midwest weather? Not going to have that problem here in the […]
Grinnell
“When I try to think of Iowa, I think ‘The place with the Mormons? Wait no, the other one.’” Something, if you believe in higher forces, did not want us […]
Oberlin
If spring settled in on Kenyon with a sunrise, it blew into Oberlin on a gale. We were woken before dawn with the sound of wind and heavy rains, and […]
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