He was a real stallion, painted life-sized in 1762 by George Stubbs. At that time, a form called “heroic couplets” was the most popular for poetry, thus in them my…

Today was a tour of forgotten little churches in the farming valley of the Allier River. I was inspired by a YouTube video I saw months ago, that I vaguely…

This month has been about two things… …1) surviving successive heatwaves, and 2) finding out what I can reasonably reach on foot. I have made some routes to and from…

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…