Our introduction to South Dakota takes us from the prairie to the palace. Palace, you ask? Okay we did drive through miles of prairie land to arrive at the Mitchell Corn Palace. It turns out that South Dakota is a very diverse place. It was also our first view of the Great Plains region of…
Chicago and Minneapolis are two of the largest cities in the Midwest and we haven’t been to either. We need to fix that! When you arrive anywhere in the dark, it is always refreshing to wake to sunlight. It is a visual transformation to see how less threatening everything looks. I’ve heard of Joliet but…
Say “2020” and everyone thinks COVID-19, Coronavirus and pandemic. On a brighter side, 2020 marks the rebirth of house calls by doctors. Not the old fashioned kind of house calls where “Doc” climbed the back stairs and knocked on the door. People who knew about house calls often lament their passing as the world became…
Our anniversary lunch-dinner was more elaborate than our wedding day dinner. After we married at the famous Little White Chapel, we had just enough time to change into travel clothes and grab a quick dinner at a Johnny Rockets at a casino before moving on to the airport for our red-eye flight home with our…
The first poem I wrote was as a sophomore in college. Totally depressed at the time, I had little purpose and wanted to be anyplace else on Earth, doing just about anything else. There was nothing amusing about my mood but maybe that is why I came to realize poetry as a muse. Inspiration comes…
