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July 2018

July 19, 2018

Best Carpool Karaoke Ever—- Paul goes Home

July 18, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan– Part Twenty

The Athens museum has a wonderful Egyptian section. There was considerable cross-fertilization between the Cycladic...

July 17, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan– Part Nineteen

Mykonos is a beautiful place to visit, but don't count on a lot of sleep....

July 16, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan– Part Eighteen

All along the roads there are lion figures... And behind them were the temples to...

July 15, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Seventeen

When one thinks of the Greek islands, often the inner Cyclades or outer Cyclades come...

July 14, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Sixteen

A good meal from a rooftop restaurant is hard to beat, especially a good meal...

July 13, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan– Part Fifteen

There is a nice small museum in the recreated Stoa in Athens. It includes items...

July 12, 2018

Cape Lookout

Here is the famous lighthouse on Cape Lookout. The diamond pattern is meant to be...

July 11, 2018

Harker’s Island, and Cape Lookout

Just returned from visiting my Mom and Sis in Wilmington N.C., and as per usual...

July 10, 2018

The Twenty All Time Best Rock Double Lps

1966 was a long time ago, but it was when the era of great rock...

July 09, 2018

Just Say No to the Local Option—- Part Two

Human sexuality and marriage issues as well as ordination issues have deeply divided our United...

July 08, 2018

Summer Reading– Part Three, Lincoln in the Bardo

We must start with saying this is one of the oddest, and most creative books...

July 07, 2018

Summer Reading Part Two– Grisham’s The Rooster Bar

If you are looking for a quick (although there are some 400 or so pages),...

July 06, 2018

Ant Man and the Wasp— The Plot Thickens

Ant Man and the Wasp is one of the better summer action...

July 06, 2018

Summer Reading— Part One (The President is Missing!)

James Patterson is a well known writer of thrillers, and many times on the NY...

July 05, 2018

Pandora’s Boy– A Roman Thriller

Lindsey Davis is one of the most gifted writers about the Greco-Roman world, and in...

July 04, 2018

A Lincoln Portrait—- Bernstein and Copland

I can think of few things more patriotic on this day than listening to Copland's...

July 03, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan– Part Fourteen

I confess to having a pet peeve when it comes to Athens and Biblical tours...

July 02, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel and Jordan— Part Thirteen

Cycladic art and artifacts come from the islands known as the inner and outer Cyclades...

July 01, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Twelve

Was Homer color blind? He talks about the 'wine dark' seas of the Aegean, and...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Eleven

Philippi is one of the most interesting sites in Greece, not merely for what it...

June 29, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Ten

After a days worth of looking at artifacts in the Athens museum (some would say...

June 28, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Nine

What happened when the Romans came to Greece? As elsewhere they imposed their will, in...

June 27, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Eight

Further to the post on grave stele's we learn a lot about the values and...

June 26, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Seven

The civilizations in the inner Cyclades islands, in southern Greece, on Crete, Cyprus, and in...

June 25, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Six

There's gold in them there tombs! In particular, there was gold in the tholos tombs...

June 24, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan—- Part Five

Whilst exploring Athens, we decided to go visit the fish, meat, nuts, fruit and vegetable...

June 23, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Four

The largest temple in Greece was built in the second century by Hadrian in Athens....

June 22, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Three

Grave Steles tell us a lot about the mourning customs of ancient cultures including Greco-Roman...

June 21, 2018

Exploring Greece, Israel and Jordan– Part Two

There are in fact lots of bronze objects recovered from the sea and from archaeological...

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