Home, isolated, sheltered in place, moving about the house following pools of sunlight, I have been thinking about what, if I had my wish, I would like to be. And,…

Snow Geese, Merced National Wildlife Refuge - (c) 2020 Russell Johnson Where can you still feel safe in a crowd? How about wandering a bog in Central California with thousands of…

 Avoiding contact with people and viruses, we spent a day in contact with nature at Bodega Bay on the California coast. It was before the crowds got the same idea…

Why is shaking hands, especially now when a virus is spreading worldwide, still the accepted international greeting? Every winter, for about 30 years, I attended conferences and shook hundreds of…

Waterfront is more than a geographical designation. Think noir. Think Bogart. Think drunken sailors Shanghaied to a slow boat to…Shanghai. The San Francisco waterfront has suffered its share of noir.

Video Art: The reflection of a palace in a Venice canal.

It's Oscars time again. Time to visit a place that is one of the world's premiere movie settings.

I have seen the pictures. Tourists mugging and doing fish-face selfies amongst the ancient temples of Angkor, one of the world’s heritage treasures. In 2018, Cambodia attracted an estimated 5.5…