Fruitful Detours
The games don’t count. Players are pulled in and out of games faster than a hot potato from an oven. But it’s sunny and it’s baseball. I recently went to my first Spring Training game in Lakeland, Florida. The Detroit Tigers were playing the Philadelphia Phillies. I have heard about the Tigers’ training camp since […]
This is the most quirky and fascinating city I’ve been to in Mexico. It is beautiful due to its brightly colored buildings and its interesting geography — it is situated in a valley surrounded by mountains. Think of a city at the bottom of a cereal bowl, with houses of vivid colors built up the […]
I’ve always liked going to live theatre performances, and the musicals I’ve seen have been especially fun. But I have never enjoyed a show more than the one I saw last week. The show was Beautiful, the Carole King Musical, and it was playing at La Petit Theater in New Orleans. The reason for my […]
Death is treated differently depending on where you go and what your cultural traditions are. In the U.S. death is generally avoided. We know it is out there somewhere coming for all of us, but we would rather not talk about it. Some psychological schools talk about “death anxiety” as a core element of many […]