Oct. 10   Onboard the Orion! The travel day was oddly tiring; I think it comes from making polite chat with strangers—all of whom are...

Oct. 10, which turns out to be a Thursday   I have an instinctive belief that if I can capture the view in front of me using my chief...

Oct. 9   Today’s post will be short for a delicious reason: We didn’t do anything. Omigawd, it was awesome!   I don’t mean we didn’t do...

Ocr. 8, 8:30pm   I want this photo to stand as proof to all who worry that I’m not taking sun protection seriously: See? I have...

October 8—Fiji (Denarau Island)   Twig and Harry have yet to emerge from their hibernation. It’s 7 in the morning and I feel SO GOOD....

Oct. 7, middle of the night (in fact, 9pm but feels like 3:30 am)   If I don’t write something, I’ll fall behind. So I made it to Fiji!...

Oct. 7, almost certainly Here--a photo of a pretty waiting area in Dubai so the first image of the post isn't of that flavorless dinner....

Oct. 5   I’m in full snort-mode. The Emirates first class is a sort of ARE YOU KIDDING ME example of truly wretched excess. But...

Oct. 5, 2024   Underneath the excitement of beginning a trip—more than a trip, a vacation —there is a contrary undertow of emotion. As...

I promised my local writing friends that I'd report on the results of my publishing experiements (most recently seven books in four...

July 28, 2023 It’s not that most of Yellowstone looks like it’s been created by CGI experts—it’s that the CGI experts have been to...

July 28, 2023 Rusty caught a fish! This is either called a whitefish OR is not called a whitefish but I’ve mis-remembered because it...

July 27, 2023 The Elkhorn became the Elkhorn in 1923. (I spent a long time trying to figure out that simple sentence. I mean—is a ranch...

July 26, 2023 It’s so cold this morning that the heels of my hands are protesting as they lay against the icy laptop keyboard. (I’m...

July 25, 2033 Landscape photo by Rusty. S'good, innit?? I live a very fortunate life. I’m mostly desk-bound, unless I stir my stumps to...

July 25, 2023 Lexie and I decided more than a year ago that we wanted to go to the Elkhorn, to honor our mother and to scratch the itch...

7.24.23 The horse carrying me, an enormous black named Dunder, began huffing and puffing as we went up a reasonably steep slope. I have...

July 24, 2023 I think I can announce, with grandeur like Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey, that I am now officially too damned old to be...

12.2.22 Don’t talk about money, my mother would say. It’s keekee. (“Keekee” was Momspeak. It was reserved entirely for things that she...

Trying to Look Smart 10.25.22 Is it snakes for you? Confined spaces? Maybe a palmetto bug in flight causes you to climb (illogically)...