50 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, OH
With help from Googling Diane and two teenage girls walking along the wooded path (Where’s Edna’s home?) , I found the soon-to-be restored house in Austerlitz, New York, where Edna St Vincent lived from 1920 until her death in 1950. My second and last detour before arriving home today. 1300 miles and 24 hours of […]
Lots of really good Jordan updates over at pesky’s website. *************** I decided to give myself two days to drive back and that’s allowed me to stop and take photographs of the neighborhood in Cincinnnati where I grew up (Above,the family house at 3021 Daytona Ave), and to stop in Massillon, Ohio, to see all […]
Heading home and thinking about stopping in Massillon, Ohio
Hu Ton, Beijing I didn’t plan on taking any more tours of Beijing, but this morning my friend Gordon convinced me otherwise. Gordon is at this meeting with his wife Barbara, and they have been doing tours on and off this week between sessions. At 11:30, after the morning flare sessions concluded, he said, “If […]
Michael, On Tuesday I took the Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City tour. It was a surprisingly long ride in the bus to Tiananmen Square, which is in the center of Beijing, and our hotel is also in the “center of Beijing”. But this is a huge city. Along the way I noticed an extensive shanty […]
Jeff tells me daily that I need treatment for my computer addiction. This time I’ve buried my head in Matt’s laptop, and I’m checking on my audible.com credits, when I hear Karen say, “Michael’s missed all the excitement.†I’m hunched at the dining room table with my back to the kitchen and I keep tapping […]
In the center of Jeffrey’s basement floor is a drain. Like the one in the center of mine, it works fine when, say, the washer overflows. However, during hard rains the drain regurgitates. My floor and walls are porous so the drain contributes minimally to my then wet basement. Jeff’s single leak is that drain, […]
Michael, One of our stops on the way to the Ming tombs yesterday was a jade factory. I had no idea what to expect, thinking it would be all solid green statues, but I was wrong. The jade factory guide showed us yellow, white and red jade. A yellow jade buddha was translucent, and seemed […]
Michael, The first stop on our tour yesterday was to the Ming tombs. It’s an hour bus ride west of Beijing in a national scenic area bordered by green hills. On the way there, our guide told us the history of the Ming Dynasty. Ming I (14th century) had 20 sons, and he chose the […]
Something poetic or is it ironic (third option offers hold your tongues) about venturing out into severe weather to retrieve a death certificate. The storm wound down as I returned to the Ruthenburg’s, but stupidly I followed the very street that had flooded in an earlier storm, the photos of which I’d posted linked to […]