Beyond Viand

2020. COVID. Lockdowns. Unemployment. Businesses closing. Borders closing. Political uprising. Protests from voices which needed to be heard...

I am working and banking up a handful of posts upcoming, but I want to give you a little something to chew on for the week.  (In the literar...

This is a little experiment I cooked up last night.  The foundation was laid at a bar in Palma on the island of Mallorca, Spain.  First: ...

Hello friends and relatives. We have traveled to the foreign soils of the Iberian Peninsula, to the town of Barcelona, and in our initial ...

The heat of the summer recalls experiences of my youth.  I remember catching bugs in the field around our house.  In my mind, I can almost t...

I occasionally receive questions, often sent to me under the hats of the flying monkeys from Oz (the monkeys are smaller in real life), by t...

Describing Venice as a "labyrinth" has the metaphoric equivalency of calling the Adriatic Sea "moist."   Remember back...