Dept. of Nance

I've used this blog in the past to come clean about my crushes. I've spoken very honestly about the men in my life, such as Rob Low...

Okay, so I need brutally objective feedback. The following struck me as funny. Really funny. But when I related it at the dinner table, I go...

On Saturday afternoon I walked out of the bathroom after having dried my hair and wandered into the living room. There, on my couch, was the...

This is such an iffy time of the year in NE Ohio, climatologically speaking. One day, we are basking in 85-degree warmth with blue, sunny s...

Thanks to Ernesto, this Labor Day Weekend which is supposed to be Summer's Last Hurrah is turning into The Festival O' Generalized M...

*Despite my earlier heartfelt pleas and cogent arguments , the pointyheads at Astronomers-R-Us or whatever went ahead and delisted Pluto as ...

This rather lengthy video is a clip from "Scarborough Country." It puts up for debate the question of whether The Angel of Death i...

Holy Crap! I took a look around The Dept. and suddenly realized that I have been blogging for a whole year now. A little over, even: Augus...

We awoke the next morning early to disembark. The cruise ship had a very orderly and swift system to get everyone off the ship in Seattle. T...

We sailed all night and at about 3:45 the next afternoon, the ship stalled enough to pick up a Victoria Harbour Pilot. Interestingly, each t...

It was a full day at sea. We awoke to the knock of a room service steward cheerfully--and quietly--bearing a tray holding my light continent...

As a little paradox, you can take a vacation from my vacation posts (!?) and head over to Leesepea's site where the 16th Carnival of th...

We sailed all night, and at about 6:00 AM arrived in the tiny town of Skagway. Skagway, Alaska, was the gateway to the Yukon gold rush of 18...

Hard to believe, but that's Alaska's capital city--all of it--Juneau. Some 30,000 people live in Juneau. Actually, the whole of June...

This leg of our journey was the most awe-inspiring. Our ship slowly navigated the steep fjord called Tracy Arm. Tracy Arm is the product of ...

(click on any photos to enlarge) This was the view from our stateroom balcony as we approached Ketchikan, the city whose name in the Tlingi...