by djmathews | Nov 26, 2024 | Education Choices, Travel and History/Health
Is Dollywood Educational (and some things about Pigeon Forge) Recently, we went to a placed called Pigeon Forge, which is actually on my bucket list. Everyone here in southwest(ern) Virginia talks about and then GOES to visit Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. This glitzy...
by djmathews | Aug 6, 2024 | Education Choices, Travel and History/Health
Wouldn’t You Love to see Paris (and the Olympics)? Wow. The last week has been something else, with Americans winning medals left and right in gymnastics, swimming, running, you name it. The 33rd (Modern) Olympics have obviously been a thrill for the Americans...
by djmathews | Jun 2, 2024 | Science and Education, Travel and History/Health
Yosemite a Great Adventure, like all national Parks (Originally from The Roanoke Times) By D.J. Mathews – Special to The Roanoke Times (2015) While visiting family in Sacramento for the first time in several years, my son and I decided upon a side...
by djmathews | Oct 15, 2023 | Science and Education, Travel and History/Health
AUTUMN, THE BUGFEST, SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS FEST October’s fall colors are in full swing, as Virginia Tech prepared for its annual “bugfest” at the Student Squires Center, not long before the Highlander festival. So— autumn was my...
by djmathews | Apr 10, 2023 | Education Choices, Travel and History/Health
(This is from the back cover of Great American Women in Science and Environment.) Yeah, we’ve come a long way, baby. Recent editorial comments made on a CBS news program have me concerned about the status of women. It has reported that women in Iran have...
by djmathews | Jul 31, 2022 | Books or Writing, Education Choices, Travel and History/Health
When my parents lived in Las Vegas, it became a good possibility for an interesting trip. You know, all the gambling slots and the glitzy fake stuff– the fake Empire Building, the pretend Eiffel Tower, the Miracle Mile Shops with the artificial sky, the (fake)...
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