On one visit to downtown St. Joseph, Missouri, quite by accident, I found myself at The Tiger’s Den.   The dinner restaurant we chose was inconveniently closed.  We landed at The Tiger’s Den to regroup.  The Tiger’s Den is a speak easy inspired, reading room, complete with bookshelves, a large collection of used books, easy chairs, and sometimes […]

I found this term, “the cotton wool of life”, once in an anthology of best practices for professional development for educators.  The book is now lost but Hannah Arendt was attributed.  The phrase appealed to me and I have often mused about the meaning.  I believe it refers to the most basic aspects of life. […]

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I am girding my loins for the antibiotic apocalypse and I suggest you do the same. Actually, what you do with your loins is none of my business. I get sick once a year when the seasons turn. This year my body decided flu was so, like, 2015,…

the space between people moving constantly experience it. sometimes comfortable, sometimes not, always there wanted, unwanted but there. inevitable, unrelenting, and untouchable always moving just beyond grasp. without shape its form moves you unveiling endless possibilities. Accept the space, move forward.  Above all keep moving. The Fragile Traveler

I am not a Mall Officinado.  It is difficult for me to walk.  A shopping trip is only a part of my life in a Health Food Store and sometimes that is too much. Who Knew?  On a recent trip to collect research on a city that intrigues me, I would be thrust into of […]

Yipes! It is already the last day of March and I have not posted a destination. As always, it is my nature to over think and delay. I am behind on my self-imposed schedule. Thinking a day trip would be a good beginning I will write just a little and visit this locale another time […]