“Hey Bill! Hear those birds?” “Uh-huh…did you say, ‘Hail! Fearsome words?’ ” Not everyone has hearing issues but most of us like a good story. This is the story of Flo Innes who was born with a hearing deficiency and struggled through childhood, adolescence, and...
Bill Ahearn
How often do you watch the sun set?
How many times have you watched the sun set? Not just noticed it setting: I mean really enjoyed it. Something folks on vacation often do, but otherwise we are mostly just too busy. Sunrises, moon rises and sunsets are always affected by external forces. The beauty can...
Gold! GOLD! A treasure for pleasurable eating.
John Rowland and Tommy Thompson, young entrepreneurs, have a vision of the great orange. They hope one day they will get a business going. For now they are aficionados introducing great southeastern oranges to people wherever they meet them. Today they were in Darien,...
Meet Cocoa, a RagDoll cat from Orlando, Florida (and Virginia)
Cocoa is a fabulous RagDoll cat who lives at home in Virginia and sometimes on the road with Charles Messer and his wife as they migrate to and fro from western Virginia to Orlando, Florida each year following the warm weather. Cocoa is bigger than Minna, my Shih Tzu,...
An Interesting Pipe Flange? Found at Hunting Island, SC
When I arrived at Hunting Island State Park I was treated most kindly by old friend, Ranger Michael Ray. Michael is a South Carolina Park Ranger I met last year at Edisto Beach. He is a neat guy, always ready to lend a helping hand. South Carolina Park Rangers, like...
A POEM: My Heart is Reaching
Along with adventures, life on my journey sometimes has setbacks. Some of you know that my trailer was damaged by a falling tree in Vermont. The outcome of that was the purchase of a new trailer, which of course, I discovered after the fact, my GMC Sonoma had trouble...
Happy Christmas, God Bless Us… Every One!
Warmest Wishes to You this Holiday Season. This is the little tree, only 14 inches tall, that graces my trailer. It is small but bursting with Christmas love. Joey made the left Santa, The crochet Teddy Bear is from Maui, the right Santa is from my editor Kate. The...
KANSHA JAPANESE COOKBOOK Real Keys to Japanese Culinary Arts
Elizabeth Andoh was born in New York, but has made Japan her home since 1967. A graduate of the Yanagihara School of Classical Japanese Cuisine, Elizabeth is the author of four books on Japanese cooking, including two International Association Culinary Professionals...
Promise vs. Bureaucrats
I have little patience these days for bureaucrats who incessantly insist on compulsory rules that the next level bureaucrat denies exist. After several visits this month to the Department of Motor Vehicles, I am DMV'd out. But one trip this week did make the journey...
The Frog and the Snake
“The biggest frog I ever saw, BIG! A-sittin’ on that flat rock.
