autobiography – Ronald Crittenden

Royal Mile

[Note: Since Carol and I are going to be on the road for the next couple weeks, and I’m not sure what sort of network monstrosities we may face along the way, I’ve decided to mine the travel archive from my Feckless Abroad blog to keep things going in the meantime. In honor of theContinue reading “Royal Mile”

All Our Yesterdays

This past Sunday, Carol and I went to nearby Malestroit to catch the last day of the town’s annual Medieval Days celebration. When we lived in the US, my wife and I were big fans of medieval/Ren fairs. Unlike the States, though, which feature an unseemly dearth of thousand year old monuments, Europe is quiteContinue reading “All Our Yesterdays”

Fears

I think it was the flying monkeys that really got me. A recent discussion online brought back to me a memory of the time when I was, I dunno, maybe six or seven, watching The Wizard of Oz on TV by myself. This was in the days when most televisions (including the one I wasContinue reading “Fears”

The Affair of the Abandoned Ukelele

Killer Nashville is over, and Schrödinger’s Cat didn’t win the SciFi category. And I don’t care. All right, I guess I care a bit. Okay, seriously, ouch. But still. I lost to a terrific book, Joss Walker’s Tomb of the Queen; and — however much of a cliché it may be — it really wasContinue reading “The Affair of the Abandoned Ukelele”