RovinCrone

When I visited Spain in 1971, among the many things I enjoyed was the food. Gazpacho, paella, flan, huge salads, fresh fruits, sherry...

Everyone is aware of the downsides of growing older—the physical deterioration, the loss of short-term memory, medical and other financial...

About fifteen years ago I wrote Recollecting the Forties , a small book about my childhood in rural Michigan in the 1940s. Looking back...

One of the best things about retirement is being able to sleep late at least some of the time. For many years when I was in school or wor...

Enjoying Yosemite's Bridalview Falls A couple of months ago I had really intended to end this blog, and to begin another that would ...

  In a long-ago class in animal behavior, I learned that some animals—probably mice—have alternative alleles in their genome, variations ...

Susan Cain’s excellent book Quiet appears at first to be a shallow, pop-psych sort of book designed to comfort shy people. I read it ...

One of the few times when we found RV life daunting was a few years ago in Alberta. We had visited the stunning Dinosaur Provincial P...

Ordinarily we have to travel to find much excitement, because our homes in El Dorado County are in a scenic area that is generally bucoli...

THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA For about twenty years off and on, I have been part of an online discussion group, the Copyediting-L. Though th...