Did you know that thirteen of the first fifteen United States presidents owned slaves?   This stat is quite well-known among historians, ...

Traveling with a purpose is the latest buzz-phrase in the travel business,  and I always get kind of a kick out of it,  because I can’t...

My library has a really cool feature.   If you have read more than one Trail Talk,  you may be surprised to learn that I spend very...

It is embarrassing to open a sentence with,  “I was taught”.   I like to think of myself as a free-thinker even in my developmental...

There is a sign on a shelf of my living room library bluntly stating that “Censorship is Obscene”.   I’m guessing this may require a bit...

From all accounts it appears that everybody today has a bucket list,  and travel is almost certainly on it.   We even tout a few of our...

Thomas Jefferson famously stated, “I cannot live without books”.   In fact, this quote is so well-known that you can find it on tote bags...

Do you know what your curiosity quotient is?   OK, I don’t either, but the very name intrigued me when I ran across a book with that...

We have certainly come a long way from the days when American schools began to introduce media – ever so cautiously – into the curriculum...