Reprinted from March 2021. Around this time of year, I recall sitting around a table and having fun when things turned tense. A young man was patiently explaining why there were never snakes in Ireland. An older woman took great…
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Still Valentines
Alcobaça, Portugal. Reprinted from 2018. Pedro and Inez were a twosome in the 1300s. But he was a prince and his father, King Alfonso, disapproved of their relationship. Ultimately, Alfonso had Inez removed from the scene via murder. (History books say she…
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Flight Turbulence
I was stuck in a window seat again. I hated that, but they said all the aisle seats were taken. It was only a four hour flight, and I hoped it would be over soon. Toward the end of the…
Gas Station – Space Station
It was sweltering hot. We stopped for showers at a gas station in the middle of nowhere in Australia’s Northwest Territory. In the parking lot, there were two pairs of green Martians. They must have been ten feet tall. Despite…
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Couch Potato
The Couch Potato’s Moment of Truth Sometime in my thirty-sixth year, I was climbing up a mountain in the steamy greenery of Vietnam. Lagging behind the rest of the hiking group by a quite a distance, I could only work…
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