If you live in the USA, you will probably just shake your head as you read this anecdote about health care in Spain. It’s just one data point, one story, but it makes you think about what could be in the US if we put our minds to it…
If you live in the USA, you will probably just shake your head as you read this anecdote about health care in Spain. It’s just one data point, one story, but it makes you think about what could be in the US if we put our minds to it…
The late George Carlin was a genius with words, a deft dasher of conventional logic, and a master observer of American cultural paradoxes.
I don’t always agree with everything he says, but I listen…
Photography and our memories…ah, how intimate the relationship, no? Nostalgia. Auld lang syne…
In this blog, watch a short video of 94-year-old Marcel Remy on one of the most iconic rock climbs in Europe, the Miroir de l’Argentine in Switzerland. (No, that’s not him in the above picture–it’s me! But Marcel is certainly my inspiration. When I grow up I want to be like Marcel!) Take a look…
Sunsets…circles…sailors…Joni Mitchell…and Life…
Current environmental and political trends around the world do not bode well for our survival as a species. How’s that for a Halloween scare?…
Life is fun and funny…
Until it isn’t…
Who knows what’s up and what’s down in this increasingly warm, divided, and authoritarian world in which we live…so why bother leveling the horizon?
This is an interesting rock formation on the north side of the Montserrat massif outside of Barcelona. One of the classic climbs on this rock prominence is the aid route (Anglada-Guillamon, IV+/A3e) up the north side..
Over the past few weeks, the largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, has been based out of Barcelona, running week-long Mediterranean tours. Later this summer it will depart and move on to service in the Caribbean…