Category: Travel
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Four Score and Seven Years Ago – Now You Say It
The short, succinct speech that opened with the words “four score and seven years ago” celebrated its 150th anniversary today. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is a remarkable oratory work. The speech took place at the dedication of the “Soldiers’ National Cemetery” in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. I feel that it would be a…
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The Swinging Bridge Swings Again
I stood looking at the diverging river from the revived swinging bridge at Jay Cooke State Park and was reminded of Robert Frost’s famous poem, The Road Not Taken: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both . . . In typical fashion, I got a late start and…
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The Desperation of the Daily NaBloPoMo Post
I am swamped at work. My house has decorative piles of laundry and magazines gracing multiple rooms. Dust on the furniture is waiting hopefully for someone to draw the next masterpiece, like an etch-a-sketch on a coffee table top. So what do I do instead today? Go hiking at nearby Jay Cooke State Park and…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
Multiple layers are the rule, rather than the exception, when running the “Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run” in International Falls, Minnesota! Yes, only in Minnesota. The year I ran this 10K race, the starting line temps were around –20º Fahrenheit (that’s not a typo, folks) (-28º Celsius) with an added nip of wind that lowered the…
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Paying Joy Forward
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ~ E.B. White These words echoed…
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