Once upon a time, there was a farmer named Brown who took a wife and lived in a dell. He was a pillar of the community and a tower of strength to his family, though he was only knee-high to a grasshopper. Size, however, didn’t amount of a hill of beans to him. He believed […]

It began with a meal of takeout pizza, a week when time stood still, as one of our six guests from California marveled on the third day. The cast of characters in this midsummer play included our nephew Toucalit, his wife Nancy, their son Andy, their nephew Mateo; our niece Maggie and her daughter Noelle; […]

Russia, the largest country in the world, is twice the size of the U.S. with less than half the population. Comparatively, although having only four times its populace, Russia is 28 times larger than Ukraine. Once being the principal component of and, to all intents and purposes, the Soviet Union, Russia lost a lot of […]