Around the World in a Click of a Mouse

  There’s a globe sitting on my desk, like the ones that used to sit on every teacher’s bookshelf in every classroom in the country.  I don’t think they do that so much anymore, primarily because the world is changing so fast that the globes become quickly outdated.

   The one on my desk is so old that it includes all of the Soviet Union and countries in Africa that have changed names and dictators a half dozen times or more.

   I could give that globe a spin today and land on a half dozen destinations about where I’m currently writing stories.

   The most current is our fabulous and recent exploration of Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast.  Bruce was going nuts taking pictures of monkeys and birds and slimey critters hiding in my computer bag.  I was working hard the whole time, as you can see.

But I did produce a story that appears here:   

 More to  come from Costa Rica. We loved that place, and really, I really worked hard down there.  Really.

 I’m also working on a story from Egypt that will appear in a new e-zine in a few weeks. I’ll share that link with you when it’s done, but here’s a hint.  Hum a few lines of Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock.”  Seriously.

 And I just posted a couple of stories from our 2006  trip to Alaska on Suite101.com.  Click here.  I was having a little fun with this picture.   What is that otter so upset at us about?

It’s amazing the filters on-line these days that won’t let you even use the words “obscene gesture.”  No complaints.  The on-line world needs a few more filters.

 And I’m looking for a place to sell a story about Vitoria Spain, a beautiful city in Basque Country where there’s a restaurant that’s been in operation since the 15th Century and a church, built in 1200, that was the inspiration for Ken Follett to write “Pillars of the Earth.”

OK, this picture is a replica of the church made from cards, but it turned out better than the one I took of the real church.

So, that’s what I’ve been working on lately, but that goes on hold as I drive to Wichita tomorrow to research the botanical gardens there.

   Maybe if I click my heels together three times, I’ll find my way out of Kansas and…

…no not really.  It’s good to be home for a while. 

   Dorothy is right.  There is no place like home, unless it’s Costa Rica, Vitoria Spain, Alaska, Egypt…..