Horrific

There are no words to express how terrible was the news of the Texas school shootings.  On top of a series of other unbelievably evil events, it was beyond comprehension.  I had several things I wanted to share this week, but I just can’t get beyond the events of the last several days.  While politicians […]

Early Check-In

Traveling, especially by air, has become a complicated, detail-encumbered process in recent years.  Security issues related to terrorism and safety issues related to the pandemic have driven many to abandon it altogether.  In our case, we were going by air, or we weren’t going, so by air we went. Many things that I enjoyed about […]

Insignificant

I was amazed.  It started with the first peek over the rim.  The closer I got, the deeper it went, and the more the impression grew.  There is no way to feel like you’re some sort of big deal when you first encounter the Grand Canyon.  It is incomprehensibly enormous.  The statistics don’t do it […]