The Tempest

    It requires an enormous amount of energy to move a 20,000 ton freight train from a dead stop, but comparatively little to keep...

I feel it only fair to issue a warning at the beginning of this post. If you have not eaten your breakfast, what follows may take away y...

So tonight my recently married daughter made one of those adorable newlywed comments on Facebook. “Even emptying the dishwasher is fun,”...

My Maine vacation is over. After a rough beginning, it ended well, two clear sunny days in the upper 60’s. I return to Short Pump with s...

Remember show and tell? Back when I was in elementary school we would have show and tell every Monday morning, whereby we might be calle...

For all of you who have been quietly annoyed at me for posting Maine pictures, you will be happy to know that yesterday Camden experienc...

This is probably my 25 th trip to Maine, somewhere around there, and each time it’s the same. It takes a while. There’s a 24 hour perio...