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On the Confectionery Trail: A Movable Christmastime Feast

Posted on December 17, 2013 by admin

A new tradition began a year ago.  It happened to be on my mother’s birthday, which is why this trip is now marked to become an annual event though it was just a coincidence the first time.  Mom is gone … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: Indiana’s Upper Right Corner

Posted on September 23, 2013 by admin

I always love a chance to go to the northern part of our state where the glaciers left behind lots of lakes and rolling terrain. And Pokagon State Park, one of our earliest, dating to 1925, in Steuben County is … Continue reading →

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I Believe in Dr. Film!

Posted on July 14, 2013 by admin

I was asked to write a guest column in “Dr. Film’s Blog.”  Read it here: http://www.drfilm.net/blog/?p=463

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Following in My Foodstops: Pie in the Sky

Posted on July 5, 2013 by admin

Pie Day?  Who thought of this?  And who would be crazy enough to drive 170 miles to check it out?  Pie Day? Well, to answer the second question, I was.  Clay’s Family Restaurant, a stone’s throw from the Michigan state … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: Up the Pendleton Pike

Posted on April 17, 2013 by admin

  Just a short trip from Indianapolis up Pendleton Pike is, well, the town of Pendleton, a pleasant place to play hooky for an afternoon.  I discovered it years ago, exploring the charms of a nineteenth century road, Pendleton Pike.  … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: The Lincoln Highway in Eastern Ohio

Posted on October 8, 2012 by admin

I do so love old highways, especially those that have become byways, bereft of their numbers.  How much people miss by not taking just a bit more time along the way!   As mentioned in earlier postings, I grew up … Continue reading →

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The Road Less Taken: Underground Wonder

Posted on September 16, 2012 by admin

On my way to somewhere else in Ohio, there was something I wanted to see again, an old tourist attraction in which my daddy had carried me around when I was a toddler, so my mom always told me. I … Continue reading →

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Guest column by The Endangered Moderate: Where Have You Gone, Richard Carlson?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by admin

Okay, I’m officially sick of it.  For eight years, George W. Bush consistently, if not purposely, mispronounced “nuclear,” “remnant,” and a whole host of other words.  Many people would accuse me of being an intellectual elitist for holding this against … Continue reading →

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Dancing with Snowdrops

Posted on January 31, 2012 by admin

Today, while dancing amidst hundreds of snowdrops in the pre-spring sun and brisk breezes, I spotted a honeybee. Well, no, that’s not true.  I wrote that line a little less than a year ago and never completed the essay.  Today it … Continue reading →

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In Search of the Lights

Posted on December 24, 2011 by admin

I’ve just returned from what has become in less than a decade one of our most cherished Christmas traditions, one that encompasses nostalgia, bittersweet memories, a road trip, and history.  It was a visit to Frankfort, population 16,500 or thereabouts, … Continue reading →

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