Mae Travels

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger is widely recognized as a classic of travel literature. Thesiger, born in 1910, spent the late 1940s trave...

This week we hiked at County Farm Park, near the recreation building where I do my exercise class. About a dozen women participated. The wea...

Update. As often happens, we came up lucky compared to Buffalo. The snow in the picture was essentially 100% of our snow. After that: rain a...

When I wasn't watching Miriam and Alice, I also spent an afternoon at the National Gallery of Art, especially enjoying the special exhib...

Today was my first hike with the International Neighbors Hiking Group. We started at the church on Webster Church Road, walked to Zeeb Road,...

New countertops, tile backsplashes, kitchen sink, stove, dishwasher, and bathroom faucets are virtually complete after almost two weeks of w...

My bookclub recently discussed The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, which turns on imagined alternate history of the early 1940s. In th...

I just bought an old edition of this Kipling classic with a few illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The print quality is not high, but I like h...

We've had a lot of rain this week, and just a few leaves are beginning to turn red. With the poet people say that April is the cruelest ...

Old Bob Dylan has a new album. I can't think of him as aging like the rest of us. In 1989, I went to a Bob Dylan concert in Paris, and h...

Did you say that Walmart pioneered the exploitation of unskilled workers? No? Good. But if you ever give this idea a second thought, I recom...

There's plenty of room for discussion and dissent, but it seems simply antiJewish to stand on the sidewalk outside a Jewish Community Ce...

I feel very lucky today: I'm going to the Bris of a friend's first grandson. I assume that having been in Israel, you know that that...

For a long time, I used this as the photo for my blogger profile. It shows Miriam, Alice, and me trying hats at the old-fashioned hat shop a...

Fairy Doors reveal the presence of urban fairies throughout Ann Arbor . Througout the city, doors into small places are opening up. Roberta...

This is a story of travel to Hawaii, told for my Real Story blog for children who are intrigued by hot lava in a volcano. One of our adventu...

Thank you, Roberta!

The New Look: The Old Look: ... and we do mean old. That old sectional lasted something like 30 years!