The Royal Mile Haggis, Edinburgh.
Will you, for a moment, discard your preconcieved notions of minced offal baked in a sheep’s stomach? Consider American equivalents of foods containing questionable ingredients: hot dogs, spam, bolognas, Vienna sausages. Enter the modern health-conscious movement. Recycle. Reuse. Do not waste anything. Well, considering there are other food products that use animal parts we tell...
Smiling in Poland (Or Spenard)
A male traveler was with his Polish wife at a checkout line in Krakow. When the traveler smiled at a female passerby, she turned red and began yelling. She didn’t bother yelling at the man, she instead turned to his wife and screamed Polish obcsenities at the poor girl and ignored him completely. Turns out,...
Likeness of Mona
It is a good year for Mona, the 700 pound brown bear. She birthed a rare three-cub litter near the cove this spring. The cove is their domain, but oddly they don’t mind as long as we stay in the boat. When I say “The Cove” I mean one of the most plentiful areas for...
Small-town moments
Inspiration sometimes rides the coattails of relaxation. Other times, in the voice or riffs of a gifted musician, in thoughts of the people and things I’ve loved, during the time I lay down before falling asleep each night. On this particular night, I stumbled across Enya, a CD not often listened to. I nonchalantly slipped her into my...