Tollbooth Nostalgia

My first memories of highway driving are of my parents throwing us three kids into our (their) VW Bug and driving from NYC to Connecticut to visit the grandparents: take…

The Joy of Suica

Pre-pandemic I knew I mostly paid with credit or debit cards, less and less with cash. And I'm not the only one: cash transactions in the US have decreased from…

Go Hawks!

University of Iowa Tiger Hawk Though I've lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota for 35 years, I grew up in rural Iowa, attended the University of Iowa, drummed in the Hawkeye…