Mae Travels

Here is Lenny trying to get a reading on the GPS in the courtyard of the Palermo archaeology museum around 10 days ago. You can tell that th...

In ancient times, Sicily was already a crossroads where diverse cultures and ethnic groups met. This ancient Greek vase very obviously depic...

The Romans in their time also ruled Sicily. This marble relief sculpture dates from the competition in the Roman Empire between Christians a...

In The Leopard , Di Lampedusa's prince observes that Sicily was the America of the ancient Greeks: a nearly empty land with some easily ...

The above photos show the seascapes seen from the hotel. Here's one of the several swimming pools -- the water cascades from an elevated...

The first photo shows the statues at the Teatro Massimo, just across the square from our hotel in Palermo. The rest of the photos show vario...

As we walked around Palermo last Sunday we came to a tree-filled square enclosed in a fence, with flea market stalls set up all the way roun...

We just spent a week in Sicily -- without much internet access. We visited several historic monuments in Palermo, and then spent a few days ...

We took a three and a half mile walk along the Huron River and around Argo Pond today. As we walked beside the railroad tracks, approaching ...

"Paul has created technical solutions to help the rest of us get to decency, a road map to decency that we can all follow without tryi...

No one can remember when the first Fourth of July Burns Park Neighborhood parade took place. The flyers were stapled to telephone poles thro...

Reading about sushi inspired me to review some old photos we took on our two trips to Japan. The Emperor's villa is open only to invited...