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Little Rock Union Station Amtrak Depot at night with passengers waitingOne step leads to another and pretty soon it’s a road trip

Train station in very late evening. The waiting room slowly fills. Clearly there are a bunch of people getting on the Texas Eagle tonight, bound for St Louis and Chicago.

James and Brenda renewing vows at 50th wedding anniversaryI guess we did a lot

I went to a 50th wedding anniversary celebration last weekend. That’s a long time. A lot of life passing by.

Blurred people walking in Grand Central Terminal“Cosmopolitan” is a _______ word

Recently I discovered that “cosmopolitan” apparently is a bad word to some people. Silly me, I always thought a cosmopolitan person was someone who’d been places, different cities, different cultures, different countries and who moved with ease in them all.

Closeup of typewriter hammersI am a writer

So many people I meet mention that they want to write a book. Maybe even vaguely dream of being discovered as the next F. Scott Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Stephen King.

Woman writing a letter by handLet’s keep in touch, really

When I grew up, long before the internet and Facebook, pre-teens and teens were encouraged to have pen pals.