All Aboard! “To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.” — Agatha Christie I’m up long before dawn on the day my trip beg…

Taking time to see the unique and unusual Authors note: this article has been more than 18 months in the making. Not because I worked especially hard at it, but because it was the last article I wa…

Baseball season among the cacti They’ve come from Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, far from their homes, the curious, the competitive, the fair weather, and the diehar…

Let the revolution begin In honor of the upcoming President’s Day, though this is being published on Lincoln’s birthday, and due to being a geek for history, I took in a Revolutionary War reenactme…

A short story of how I got into online auctions I’m a man who likes a deal.  As a man who likes a deal and has a penchant for unique items, I’ll try to find creative ways of makings my buck go…

Ice, fights, and community Like most people, when they’re asked about why they like their favorite thing the answer is simple: because I do. My favorite thing is hockey.  For me, the exci…