search blog
-
recent posts
- UPDATES AND THOUGHTS, Part 3 April 5, 2025
- THOUGHTS, AS PROMISED November 1, 2024
- UPDATES AND THOUGHTS, part 1 August 7, 2024
- CELEBATIONS May 26, 2024
- LIBRARIAN POTENTIAL February 21, 2024
- NOTEWORTHY NEWS February 13, 2024
- MORE SENSE OF PLACE, mostly in books October 3, 2023
- SENSE OF PLACE, Part 2 B00KS PLUS September 13, 2023
- MORE NEWS OF MY WORLD: PLACES, BOOKS, CIVIC DUTY, AND CHARLIE July 23, 2023
- NEWS FROM MY WORLD, amended June 3, 2023
pages
archives
meta
Search Results for: Letters from Yellowstone
RB’S SOMETIMES-ASKED-QUESTIONS
What do you recommend for a Midwestern, home-schooled 14-year-old? Except for Charlie who mostly read C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia and Spiderman comics, I am zip when it comes to kids, especially early teens. I was allowed — and … Continue reading
Posted in General Discussion
Leave a comment
GOOD IDEAS AND LOCAL NEWS
Today, especially, I miss my old neighbors. Every St. Patrick’s Day the mostly Scandinavian-surnamed lot of them would “drop in” after work, sure of their Irish coffee and soda bread, to argue the important question: were the Irish here before … Continue reading
Posted in General Discussion
Leave a comment
FIRST THINGS FIRST, PART 3
Finally, the last of the order lists. To make it more intriguing, look for fat biographies, detailed memoirs, journals, logs, or diaries of adventurers in places doing things we know too little about, at least four works with (sometimes remote) … Continue reading