The summer solstice, our signal to celebrate the official calendar start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere, happens on
It happened February 17, the single day—the only day this year it will occur. Fortuitous timing of a singular marvel.
“I’m stranded here,” my mother said when I called her one evening last week. An eye infection in her good eye has left mom totally
When I looked again at the map for the Kogumotori-goe section we walked on our third day of the Kumano Kodo, how to write about
Remember the gracious, old-world manner and deportment of Stevens, the butler in the film The Remains of the Day? The kind of man who would
The poet and filmmaker Odveig Klyve for several decades has lived in Stavanger, an inspiring seaport city. We especially liked the whale-bone-white of wooden shops
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