[caption id="attachment_1474" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Mist on the Fraser River (2009) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I fell off the map this…

I mentioned last week how the ancient Egyptian, Eratosthrenes, used a column and a shadow as two sides of a…

Despite the myths and rumors of a flat earth promulgated during the Middle Ages, most scientific minds over the centuries…

In southern Portugal, at a place called Sagre, I stood on red cliffs, high above an azure ocean and inhaled…

Last week I talked about the legend of paradise contained in Saint Brendan’s Island and how that legend persisted through…

I never get lost, or only rarely. Few places turn me around, Portland Oregon being one of them. (I’m blaming…

This past summer I had the ‘interesting’ experience of living like a writer. My day-job contracted work dried up and…

This morning I happened to talk to a reader of one of the Karen L. McKee books called Judas Kiss.…

[caption id="attachment_797" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Women in the moment of Cusco Parade(2011) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson[/caption] Coming home from another continent…

[caption id="attachment_784" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Machu Picchu caught in the coil of the coil of the Urubamba River (2011) Photo (c)…