This is to be a welcome vacation… …but first I got some help getting clarity on what I needed a vacation from. Call it corruption. Awoke this morning pretty cold,…

I woke up this morning in a soft bed in the guest room of a long-lost fourth cousin. While in Oregon, about two years ago, a man I’d never heard…

Grey it certainly is, but how influential is hard to tell. I walked about in the heart of Paris yesterday, until fading light and some spatters of rain drove me…

In the Basilica of Saint Denis rest 43 kings, 32 queens, and 60 princes and princesses. All but five of all the French kings in history, in fact. But don’t…