RovinCrone

Coastal fog from the Pacific Ocean can be romantic and mysterious. Many times I have walked the streets of San Francisco at night, when fo...

Many years ago the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Phyllis McGinley wrote Sixpence in her Shoe (1964) , celebrating the joys of home and fa...

In 1961 I left a lowly job in medical research, and went looking for another one.   An ad for “research assistant” posted by the Amer...

Most people seem to have settled down by the time they reach their late seventies. They are either happily staying in homes where they ha...

Harper Lee’s just-released novel Go Set a Watchman continues the story of Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch and her father, Atticus. In Lee’s P...

  Brittany_Maynard  had everything to live for. Newly married, the beautiful and intelligent young woman should have looked forward to a l...

Writing and RV travel should go together like ham and eggs. When we bought the Winnebago View, I thought we could travel from place t...

When we visited Canyonlands National Park in southern Utah recently, we failed to make a campground reservation. After all, it was May,...

Now in my late seventies, I have been around the block a few times. I can’t pretend to have learned everything about living the good li...

  During the past year, some of my old friends have been widowed. It is saddening to watch them go through the early stages of grief-...