The thrill of being recognized There are writers and journalists who get public recognition like this all the time. Alas, I'm not one. But I was married to one of them, spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
A matter of presidents Virginia spawned four of the first five US presidents. Between Reconstruction and the roaring twenties, Ohio's executive fecundity earned it ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
The Basement Government This scheme worked so satisfactorily that the Basement Cabinet decided to apply it in 2024 by arranging for a politically incompetent ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life .. spectator-us-2020-election / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
Eighty years on, Smokey Bear has aged like a fine oak Yes, Smokey Bear became an octogenarian this year, and a billboard in my central Pennsylvania town informed me of his milestone. Not that we ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
The return of CRT TVs Cathode-ray televisions -- the thick, "fat" CRT TVs of my youth -- were dead. You couldn't find them in secondhand shops, because who would ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
Falling in love with Montana After ten days in Montana, New York City's Chinatown felt and smelled like a rotting fishbowl. The heat was pushing 90 degrees. spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life .. spectator-us-life-place / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
The vision behind Woolsery At first glance, it looks like any other sleepy village in southwest England. A medieval church and manor house face a fish 'n' chip shop ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life .. spectator-us-life-place / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
Rwanda to Uganda: a cross-border quest After a decade of idle talk, Dad and I devised our mission: we'd research gorillas in Rwanda and realize his life goal of tracking them in ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life .. spectator-us-life-place / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
In praise of Halloween food The biggest defining feature of Halloween is the cuisine -- or, rather, the one food group that dominates the day. Candy. It's all about the ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share
Culling cookbooks I obviously couldn't get rid of my father Bob Jones's The Outdoor Picture Cookbook, published in 1954 and launched to Americans over their ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-life / / #news / / 36 days 36d Share