Monday, March 10, 2025

Angelkeep off the Street Fair midway

Meet friends. Elephant ears. Rides. Corn dogs. Parades. Yellow jackets. Games. Taffy apples. Bands. Fish sandwiches. Market Street Industrial Tent. Free acts....

From Rwanda to the Bluffton Street Fair

Writing about travel has always been one of my favorite topics to share with our readers and is certainly a labor of...

Angelkeep Journals: Work before (Street Fair) pleasure

Long ago,, this columnist fried a full skillet of brats sautéed with onion and pepper strips. The idea was to pre-eat a...

Lessons from ‘1,000 Books before Kindergarten’

My 4-year-old and I finished a journey this month that we started nearly three years ago; we finished 1,000 books before kindergarten.

A day in a rural Rwandan community with five artisans

Aristotle coined the phrase, “The soul never thinks without an image.”  I think of those seven words often, including...

A new mattress; Farewell Jimmy; Small-town cops

A few odds and ends as we — my wife and I — recover from a wonderful journey only to catch some varied...

A nothing special day

Last Friday was a fairly quiet, nothing special day. The last business day before a holiday usually is.  The...

Angelkeep Journals: A chance of 10,000 lifetimes

What are the chances of a native, common, juvenile, red-tailed hawk spending an entire hour posing on the Angelkeep patio two to...

In search of the Big 5 on east African safari

As we rounded the corner on the dirt road in our green Toyota Land Cruiser safari car, almost out of nowhere I...

Angelkeep Journals: Spawning bluegills hatched digressions and name-droppings

Shallow waters of a swale inlet for Angelpond’s fresh water refill became a perfect spot for a bluegill to decide to spawn....