Opinion

The November 2019 National Geographic magazine is a celebration of women of impact around the world who fearlessly push boundaries.   The issue is entitled “Women:  A Century of Change.” 

Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday of November, which usually leaves at least a week for America to digest the bodacious family meal, travel back home from family gatherings, and

This November has been a month of dealing with change. As the moon grew full the first week of the month, days were seasonably warm though occasional nighttime lows dipped

The first time I walked into A la Campagna antique store on E. Broadway, I wanted to live there.  It was the very kind of store my mother Alice would

This week, “The City Game:  Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team,”—a book chronicling a sports scandal like no other in college basketball history—will appear in bookstores around the country. 

In a week, I’ll be speaking to MU Professor Doug Hurt’s “Geography of Tourism and Travel” class.  We’ll be discussing an assigned non-fiction book by author Matthew Goodman, “Eighty Days: 

For me, October is about new beginnings.  It’s the month Kit and I moved from Washington, DC to Missouri in 1988.  It’s a month of seasonal transition, brightened by a

October days at Boomerang Creek begin with chilly dawn walks and end with fiery orange sunsets that set the woods ablaze. In the woods, there is a deep moan as

In 1974, Mark and Delia Owens met in a protozoology class at the University of Georgia. A visiting scientist told them about Africa’s disappearing wilderness, reporting “More than two-thirds of

With October’s arrival, it is the power of air that shapes the pattern of movement on the land. For days, the air seems to stop moving altogether. To hang dry