Fragility is a fact of life that is mostly ignored, and perhaps for good reason. No one knows what is to become of any of us, I suppose. And on…

Not a single country in the European Union has English as their official language. So who decided this sign in the courtyard of the European Parliament would be a great…

About 28 uninterrupted hours on two planes, three trains, and one automobile, and I am in my room in France. At five o’clock on the morning of June 2nd, my…

This is a bigger part of the country than I remembered. I always had the idea the Great Plains took up most of the land area of the U.S., but…