A Plethora of Postcards

No, this isn't a picture clipped out of people magazine.  It's one of a huge stack of postcards my son brought back from Europe thi...

I know every word to the song Waltzing Matilda but I don't think I've ever heard (or at least paid attention to) the words of the A...

I was surprised to find I had two postcards of bats, one of Polish bats (or at least bats on a postcard sent from Poland) and one of fruit...

In Argentina, the Casa Rosada (the Rosy House) is the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina , and of the of...

When the surf comes up at Mavericks , the waves are among the largest cold water waves anywhere. This past week, one of the best big wave s...

I love playing Scrabble.  At any given time, I've got about four games going on Facebook with friends, one who lives in San Francisco, a...

Spring is always my favorite season.  It reminds me of poppies in bloom, asparagus, hard boiled eggs, my birthday, daylight savings time, a...

Big day!  My first Moomin postcard from Finland, through Postcrossing .  I've mentioned before that the Finns, given the size and popul...

If hundreds of ships no longer in use but still floating in the Bay is called a "mothball fleet", does that make a s...

Cheng Kung Three Fairies Terrace is in Taiwan.  From the back of the card:  It (sp.) located at the northern part of Cheng Kung Town in Tai...

This card is from a fellow "Postcard Friendship Friday" friend Sheila, of A Postcard A Day .  She lives in England, but has a cot...

It's rainy today in San Francisco, after a week of beautiful, warm-for-January weather.  Sometimes the little teases of Spring make wait...

A particularly beautiful view of Mount Rushmore , at Sunset, sent from Duke and Sandy during their second cross country odyss...

I've been taking a screenwriting class over the last year, starting last January.  I took it once Spring semester and had started ag...

January in California always amazes me.  Right now in most of the rest of the country, any vegetation is brown or grey.  However, in Califor...

A cleansing bath for the first Sunday in the New Year, perhaps?  Ed tried to talk his friend into jumping in ("Tried to pe...

The Silver Queen hangs in the saloon of the Silver Queen Hotel in Carson City, Nevada .  Carson City is the capitol of the state of Nevada ...

Three months ago, I started working at the San Francisco Food Bank , a non-profit organization that distributes over 40 million pounds of f...

Today, we celebrate that most American of holidays - Thanksgiving.  While much of the day is filled with consuming - food, football and fi...

Tin How Temple is " the oldest Taoist temple in the United States.... It was built in 1852 and is dedicated to Mazu ."  Not surpr...