On the Way Home

Here's remembering my great uncle Oscar Scudder (my Grandfather Herbert's brother), who was killed on this date 94 years ago on the...

Here's a nice shot from inside the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.  It is a very beautiful mosque, which dates back to the reign of Sul...

Since I made it back to Burlington everything has been a blur, which has been fantastic, but it also means that I am way behind on my blogg...

Well, I am actually almost Lutheran, sort of.  Growing up out in the Hoosier hinterlands of southern Indiana the closest church was St. Joh...

First off, let me apologize for the girly picture.  Bear with me, there is a point to this (beyond my own infamously prurient nature, of co...

I am back safe and sound in Vermont after my year in the UAE - and a glorious five day visit to the UK (more on that later).  In addition t...

Guess I've been thinking a lot about Yemen, and also about closing old doors and opening new ones.