34,500 Miles • A Sea of Faces When I was nine or ten years old, my favorite uncle was coming for a visit. On the day he… Continue reading “34,500 Miles • A Sea of Faces”…
28,288 Miles • A Short Detour into the French Revolution In the spring of 1776, an embittered France, angry and smarting from losing its North American colonies to Britain in… Continue reading “28,288 Miles • A Short Detour into the French Revolution”…
26,052 Miles • New Mexico’s Grassland Did you know that New Mexico has grasslands? There is a small bit of northeastern New Mexico called the Kiowa… Continue reading “26,052 Miles • New Mexico’s Grassland”…
20,856 Miles • Welcome to California Heading south from Crater Lake, I crossed the border into California. Normally I don’t write the sentence, “I crossed the… Continue reading “20,856 Miles • Welcome to California”…