Random Past Posts
Back to Back! Lady Tigers State Champs Again! Minutes after the Oklahoma 4A Girls Championship game, I got to hear my niece introduced as "State Champion Grace Parker" for the second year in a row. Don't let those pretty blue eyes fool you: she's a warrior out there. More...
Laundry Day: Peten, Guatemala Between the archaeological sites celebrating ancient Mayan grandeur is the real world of modern-day rural Guatemala. I took a short diversion off the highway between Tikal, Guatemala and the Belize border, heading down a randomly chosen side road just to More...
Iran: Blue Tiles of Isfahan In the time period roughly between Christopher Columbus and George Washington, early-day Iranians were on the other side of the world doing some pretty impressive things with blue and yellow tile. The city of Isfahan was the capital of Persia More...
Completed Passes In the Alps, there are lots of very-long tunnels and lots of very-high mountain passes. Sometimes you get to choose between the two. Tunnels usually make lousy pictures. And sometimes you learn a thing or two by taking the high More...
Buddha on the Chindwin One of a series of posts from the Chindwin River in Burma (Myanmar). Those statues of a fat, laughing Chinese Buddha are no part of Theravada Buddhism in Burma. Summarizing Buddhist beliefs and practices is like trying to summarize More...