Pick Your Pirate

 
Action words for researchers and treasure hunters came recently with news that “a handful of objects were taken out” of five Roman shipwrecks found in deep water.  A handful?  A sackful?  A scoopful?  It all means there’s more.  And that‘s the problem.
Undersea exploration pits officially recognized archaeologists against sponsored scouts in a race through shared clues.  The company man uses [...]

Hitchhiking With Rick Sanders, pt 3

American wrestlers work to make 1980 Olympic Team, starting with the 1973 Junior National Championships.

Forever Young England

Young man’s life altered by grievous wounds.

Baby Drives My Car

Teen driver learns the rules of the road the hard way.

Home Birth Primer

Home birthing expert has her baby at home.

King Arthur Now

If reading fairy tales of kings and queens encourage a child’s imagination, then dragging them up the treacherous goat trails of Tintagel Castle makes it real.     
From one outcropping to another doom waits one misstep away.  
It was magical, but from a practical point of view the question remains, why build here when there’s beautiful flat land [...]

Sprinkling Money

 
Here at DG’s B&B we do things by hand.  Paint with a brush instead of a spray system, water the flowers with a hose.  One visitor wanted to change that.
“I’m an irrigation man, a water man, but not a plumber.  I do my own plumbing, but I can’t do yours.  Plumbers and irrigation men have restrictions [...]

Reaching Teachers

If we need somewhere to hang accountability, don’t measure a teacher’s neck.

A Dorando Pietri Day

Running over twenty six miles at once is like breathing: if you stop for too long, you die; do it too fast and you pass out.

A Cambridge Education

 

The knowledge base of an average Cambridge, England citizen grades higher than nearly everyone else.  This is no surprise to those who track smart places.  The shocker is the intellectual foundation in Cambridge reaches beyond the university.
In America, Cambridge means Harvard.  What do you want to see on your doctor’s license, Dr. Yes from Harvard Medical School, or Dr. No from the Dominican Republic Veterinary Clinic.  When we [...]

Hitchhiking With Rick Sanders, pt 2

 
Car accidents send a wave of emotion across family and friends and anyone reading the news.  Some attain iconic status.  James Dean.  Steve Prefontaine.  Rick Sanders.
One is a Hollywood actor killed in a Speedster, the other a speedy sports star killed in a sports car.  Rick Sanders hitchhikes through Yugoslavia and gets into the wrong car.
A teammate and [...]

Hitchhiking With Rick Sanders, pt 1

Wrestling goals are simple: beat the other guy.  From your first match to your last it’s the same.  Beat the other guy.  If you win often enough you step up on a podium.  Win often early and you’re called a district champion.  Keep rolling and you’re a state champion. 
The next steps are national champ, world [...]

An Unplanned Exit, pt 3 Off Stage

 
Police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck rolled up outside the neighbor’s house one morning.  I didn’t see any smoke.  He came over  later.
“If you live with an older person in the family, Mom or Dad, Uncle Buck, you absorb parts of their lives through interactions.  You raise your kids in front of them, making comments or not, and [...]

An Unplanned Exit, pt 2: Stage Right

You know you’re living next to a family caregiver when the transportation parked at the curb changes from car to carpool, elder bus to wheelchair van, ambulance, fire trucks, police cars, and the hearse.   
My neighbor stops in to explain:
“You’re not sure what to expect if you ask a loved one to take a seniors’ driving review.  By the time you find [...]

An Unplanned Exit, pt 1

A neighbor stops by DG’s B&B for a few hours.  It’s nothing regular, he just comes to vent:
“Family caregiving always ends the same if you do it right.  It’s not a job that regenerates itself like an auto parts factory re-tooling for next year’s model.  Family caregivers face the same model year after year.
Farmers and family caregivers have more in common, except [...]