Are mice colorblind?
On my ride this morning, a little mouse was in the middle of the intersection of the Rabbit Road and CO. Raod 21 by Kasota. No traffic. Just me, my bike, and the little mouse with big ears. Little mouse saw or heard my wheel and tore, terrified, off the road and ran...
June 16: Youth Day in South Africa
THIS is YOUTH DAY in South Africa The first time I visited the Hector Pieterson Museum was June 16, 2013. It was Youth Day. I didn't know that when I walked in. There were groups of school children, all in uniforms of various colors, crowding the museum. I was the...
Deep Valley Book Festival
Deep Valley Book Festival--Betsy-Tacy Society Calendar of Events. The Deep Valley Homecoming is coming up at the end of June. Author Melissa Wiley (whom I met at ALA in San Diego a couple years ago) will be a featured speaker. This will be fun. Check the above...
I believe in Cultural Immersion
We got off the plane in Johannesburg, met our guide Pieter, dropped our luggage at Flossie’s B&B, and plunged right into Soweto. Nothing like getting right down to the business of being immersed in South Africa. Earthstompers, our tour company, arranged with...
Home again…or are we?
We're Home! And yet, not quite... "We are not African because we live in Africa. We are African because Africa lives in us." --motto of Afrovibe Adventure Lodge. The 2015 South Central College student trip to South Africa has come to an end. When we returned...
To South Africa we go!
True to form, I turned grades in at midnight last night (yeah, they were due at midnight). I actually hit "post" for the final class about 12 minutes after 12. But I'm done. I got up this morning, and for the first time since January, there wasn't anything I was...
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