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Western Loop, Days 4-5: Pagosa Springs

Posted on July 7, 2019 by

Trip Dates: June 10-11, 2019 | Photo Album On past vacations we had driven north on US 84 from Santa Fe, NM to Pagosa Springs, CO, stopping along the way to hike at the beautiful Ghost Ranch. But by now … Continue reading →

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Western Loop, Days 1-3: To Santa Fe

Posted on July 4, 2019 by

Trip Dates: June 7-9, 2019 | Photo Album For 12 days in June 2019, Wendy and I drove a 2,000-mile loop from Oklahoma through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. We stayed overnight in 8 different towns, never staying more … Continue reading →

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Decked Out

Posted on June 1, 2019 by

June 1, 2019 Have you ever watched a home improvement show or video and thought, “Well, even I could do that!” Two psychologists at the University of Chicago hypothesized that people overestimate how much their abilities improve after extensively watching … Continue reading →

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Beautiful glasswork in the service of science

Posted on May 5, 2019 by

If you have ever pressed a flower in a book or observed a diaphanous jellyfish, you can grasp the difficulty of preserving their fragile beauty for later study. This is the story of a Czech/German glassworker and his son who, … Continue reading →

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Our South Central Vacay

Posted on March 23, 2019 by

March 20-22, 2019 | Slideshow | Photo Album Our 2019 Spring Break included a brief vacay down in South Central. Not a vacation to LA’s South Central, mind you, but instead to south central Oklahoma, with two stops in Shawnee … Continue reading →

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