This made me cry. My heart swelled with the kindness offered Dutch shoppers, particularly, though by no means exclusively, to elderly people who want to chat, have a bit of a conversation and not be so rushed through the lanes when checking out at the grocery store. Quite the opposite of what Taco Bell is doing…

My mom and I went for a walk yesterday, 'round Wilde Lake. It was a lovely day. The last day of the year. Gloriously warm and sunny, in the mid-50s. A fine day to be out. We passed a Little Free Library positioned along the path, and I popped over to check out the books in…

I'm not much of one for the fast-food experience: long lines, food that feels good going in but rarely feels as good an hour or two later, and prices that have me preferring my home-cooked meals rich in nutrients and low in ingredients I don't know how to pronounce. But that don't mean I'm not fascinated…

I love the whole super-hero genre of films and TV series. Not the actual print comics, per se, and not the animated stuff, but the films, the movies, the one with humans, metas and superheroes on screen. That whole tortured-soul, personal-demons-to-overcome, life-isn't-automatically-easy-when-you're-a-super-hero thing works for me. Well, that and the worlds they live in. Two of my…