About the creative sense of humor Hello, friends, hope you’re enjoying the season, and staying cool if you want to. A comment: Whoever created flamingos must have had a [...]

Great escapes: Monument Valley Monument Valley is one place to go for some extra room. There’s a whole lot of space there, marked out for viewing by the rocky [...]

Buoyant is what swifts do best. If you’re tired of being an Aries (the Ram) or Virgo (the Virgin) or the Dragon (in the Chinese zodiac, one born in [...]

[photo courtesy pixabay] There never seem to be enough of them. The concept of a freedom-loving person who lives on a horse on the wide-open ranges somewhere: now, that [...]

Want to take breaktime in southern Spain today? Just watch (and hear) Isreali musician Anat Navarro playing “Malaguena.”  [photo courtesy Anat Navarro] To see it and listen, you’d think [...]

To the ancient Greeks, Atalanta was a female hero renowned for her speed and strength, famed for many heroic exploits and for being the only female Argonaut. [For more [...]

When cyberspace just isn’t spacious enough. This week the famous Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is lighting up the skies in New Mexico. https://balloonfiesta.com/ Last year was the 50th anniversary [...]

Will they let you pitch your tent this close to the ghosts of Chichen Itza? Dear readers, as you can imagine the answer is: probably not. However, even if the [...]

Good news: you probably won’t need to shop or put up decorations. Maybe you already know this: every full moon has a name, almost anywhere on Earth. For ancient [...]

What to do if that bus ride over the Andes is really out of the question this month It seems to be true: you never outgrow your need for [...]