anticipation & preparation: buffalo & niagara falls
As it took a lot of time and energy to plan my trip to the Four Corners, I didn’t start planning my trip to Buffalo, New York and Niagara Falls until I returned home at the end of May. My […]
View Articlethe call to place: buffalo & niagara falls
Oh, the overwhelming and breathtaking power of water. I could stand for hours mesmerized by waterfalls, listening to the roar of water as it makes its way from high ground to low, spellbound by its...
View Articlethings i learned today: on the road to buffalo, new york
I learned that New York is nicknamed the Empire State, commonly believed to refer to the state’s wealth and resources. The true origin of the name is questionable, however. I learned that the Tim...
View Articleon journey: to buffalo, new york
It’s a warm June day when I take off for Buffalo, New York, en route to Niagara Falls. Billy Joel serenades me, putting me in “a New York State of Mind.” On Rt. 15N, wooden fences follow me on the […]
View Articlethings i learned in buffalo, new york
I learned, while visiting the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, that in 1901, Buffalo was the 8th largest city in the U.S. I learned that the U.S. had just celebrated victory in the...
View Articlemovement & sound in niagara falls
Monday, I hightail it down the highway, while fields undulate out the window and smokestacks belch. Out the car window, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York rush by in a blur. I cruise, snagged by small...
View Article~ current ~ events in niagara falls
Late June, 2018. Dangers lurk in the swift-moving Niagara, in the law (or lawlessness) of the land, in the power of corporations and government to squash the little man, in the politics of hatred,...
View Articlepoetic journeys: o, teddy!
O, Teddy! Where did you go that hot September day, as President McKinley lay, allegedly recovering, with an assassin’s bullet raging deep in his body? O, Teddy! You took your cowboy self hiking up the...
View Articletwenty-eighteen
In twenty-eighteen, I: Visited Pittsburgh for the first time ever. Traipsed around the National Parks and Monuments in the Four Corners area with my ever-patient husband, and on my own. Took a solo...
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