We drove up from Reykjavik yesterday: a mildly stressful hour as we got our ducks in a row–picking up the car and driving back to […]
Tag: travel
Yesterday: Reykjavik, day three.
This is my fourth visit to Reykjavik, which changes things. Gone is the astonishment of so beautiful and new a place: what are these mountains? […]
MUCH to impart.
(This monster is a doodle from my current notebook. They are always full of them.) That sounds more dramatic than it needs to be! Still, […]
Rice Lake: thunder.
(This cemetery has a lot of deteriorated marble lambs.) Last night I woke to a noise, a single gigantic peal of thunder. I’m used to […]
Rice Lake, WI.
I drove up to my mom’s house the day after Stop Day, when I was on two graduate committees. Five hundred miles north, spring is […]
Snowy days of yore.
This picture is from my Japan trip in February and March of 2004. I was there for three weeks or so, and every place I […]
Moon piggery….
(This is a moonpig or something? Maybe a moondog? Moonfrog? Anyway one leg in the back, two in the front, hideous expression, and man do […]
Giving talks.
I am giving a talk tomorrow at the Topeka and Shawnee County Library. I like talking in front of groups, so this is the sort […]
Quick catch-up!
(This was in Glasgow; I do love fancy carved stone.) Yesterday was wall-to-wall, from getting to the office by 8am to finishing class at 9pm. […]