Cruise ships are big—the ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily. Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high (imagine the field standing upright on an end zone). Estimates for 2019 are that 20 million people went on […]
Archives for February 2020
A Short Note on May Stevens
In August of 2018, I posted an article titled “The Ordinary/Extraordinary May Stevens” about the life and work of Ms. Stevens. I recently learned that she had died at the age of 95 in December of 2019. According to a long obituary in The New York Times, she died of Alzheimer’s disease after a long stay […]
Warding off Loneliness at Walmart: the Misadventures of a Former Urbanite
Since my move to Tennessee besides acclimating to my new job, my life has revolved around ordering items on Amazon Prime, swiping left on Tinder and driving to the local Walmart Supercenter. Tennessee ranks eighth in the nation for the number of Walmart Supercenters. There are 117 Supercenters in Tennessee, about 14 for every-one million […]