We're wrapping up our trip to Boise -- I think -- in a few hours, when we fly out of Denver, where we've been since Saturday. Many eastbound passengers like us have had to make other arrangements after Dulles airport, where we were headed, and others...

Brian and I went for a hike in back of my brother's house in Boise today. It was about 36 degrees and sunny. Brian did some bird watching along the way and saw some goldfinches, magpies and a kestrel. When we got to the top of the hill, Table Rock,...

First snow day of the season today. The snow turned to rain and by the time I went to the last journalism class of the semester, there was thunder and lightning. Students seemed to be in high spirits. And our friend Ramari's wife Sabita and son...

I won Amherst Bulletin columnist Phyllis Lehrer's annual postcard contest for having been the one whose card was sent from the farthest point from the place we don't pronounce the "h." My wonderful trip to Thailand this summer just keeps giving. Here I...

This year we were joined by our three Nepalese friends, Bikram, Ganandra and Ramari, who told us some fascinating stories about their homeland, including about the yarsagumba, a combination caterpillar-fungus known as the "Himalayan Viagra," said to...