thoughts, tales and travels
I read this novel for the first time when I was about 13 years old on my best friend’s recommendation. I believe it was the first book I chose from the adult room in the Dover Public Library. My mother’s father started out as a sharecropper, and the voices of...
Delicious breakfast scramble at Buddy’s, home of fluffy biscuits, enormous portions, shiny chrome, and marvelous 50s junk. And then a peaceful interlude, sitting on sun-warmed rocks by the Willamette River .
My short story “Exposure,” based on the experience of viewing the 2017 total solar eclipse and on the later experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in Oregon, has been published in Ginosko Literary Journal. I viewed the eclipse with my husband and two dear long-time friends, so the antics of the...
We welcomed professional track and field athletes from all over the world to Eugene’s Hayward Field today. It was a classic Eugene summer day, cool and sunny. World Records were set in two events. Paralympic athletes were featured in several events. Sydney McLaughlin Levrone leads the pack in the 400
We are on our way home after enjoying a relaxing weekend with son Ben and family. Friday morning was clear enough for Bill and I to enjoy our traditional walk along the bay in Fairhaven. The rain and mist settled in the afternoon, but we were cozy under the deck...
After our morning tour of Bruges, we traveled to the city of Ypres, now known as the “City of Peace.” We learned about the Belgian battles of WWI, then known as The Great War, in the interactive Flanders Field Museum. to learn about the Great War (WWI). The museum had...
This morning’s city walk was delightful – Bruges did not seem very crowded for a medieval European city. The rain stayed away; the city tour guide was amusing. From the 13th to the 15th centuries, Bruges was the most important trading center of northern Europe, based largely on its thriving...
We arrived safely in Brussels—no flight incidents. We were exhausted of course. After the drive to Bruges we checked in to the elegant hotel Cassleberg and slept all afternoon. Our hotel was elegant, comfortable, and conveniently located near Burg Square and Markt Square. We attended our welcome drink and briefing...
I’ve been working on my notes and photos from our fall trip, a dream cruise from Antwerp, Belgium, to Basil, Switzerland, with extra time in Bruges, Belgium at the beginning and Luzerne, Switzerland at the end. I’ll be posting these over the next week or so. September 23: Here we...
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