A friend recently posted on her Facebook that she received the book “1000 Places To See Before You Die” from her husband as a Christmas present. She’s now anticipating the exotic worldwide travel that surely must be in her future. I haven’t read this particular book, but it presumably includes the usual suspects: the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest, the Taj […]

I wish I had a river so long  I would teach my feet to fly I wish I had a river I could skate away on  –          Joni Mitchell. The seemingly ever-changing Sangamon River flowing alongside my property grows, shrinks, shifts, and changes moods like a living being.  Even during the winter, the Sangamon changes with the weather; sometimes flowing, […]