It was the year of the pandemic but also a year that provided a lot of opportunities. In the next few posts I’ll look back on some of the...

Back in the twentieth century, I used to dream of the technological advances that could make our lives easier. What about a dirty clothes...

For many years, New Zealand has been on my list of places to which I want to travel. I’ve been to its neighbor, Australia, but for only...

A few weeks ago, BBC News published Why physics suggests other dimensions exist. Although the mathematics of physics strongly suggests...

Today's daylight is so filtered due to smoke in the upper atmosphere that I keep thinking there is a solar -->

Last Friday, Cal Fire gave the great light to "repopulate" our area. It's not that the CZU Complex fire was out, but the threat to our area

The air looked hazy, but not too bad, from the village of Saratoga at 11:00 AM. So I went home to pack up a few -->

One of the advantages of staying in the village of Saratoga while the CZU fire complex has me on the run, is that the Saratoga High...

The CZU fire complex continues, and so does the evacuation order. Given that the flames are not near our property -->

Situated on the Saratoga Creek, The Inn is a boutique hotel that was acquired by Hilton not too long ago. For anyone visiting -->

I planted my three tomato plants so late that I still have a month to wait before my tomatoes are ready to eat. But my -->

I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->

I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->

These are the days of reverse travel. I had planned to be in Germany this month for the Bayreuth Festival. Instead, the -->

With the lack of travel due to COVID, I was delighted to hear that the Earth has a visitor from the solar system-->

I am a traveler. After 16 trips last year and 2 earlier this year, it was difficult to have my travel life come to a screeching -->

The highlight in any true fan of Richard Wagner’s music is a visit to Bayreuth to attend the annual Bayreuther Festspiele to hear -->

My idea of local and distant travel has been shaped by my having crossed the Antarctic Circle, the Arctic Circle -->

When most people think of Napa, the towns in the valley come to mind—Napa, St. Helena, Yountville, Oakville, Calistoga, and -->