We went to Rome last week, and while it was all incredible, the highlight was the day trip we took to Pompeii. That was bucket list stuff for me, and guys…I was not prepared. Pompeii is huge, and much less haunted than I imagined it would be. Even the visit to the plaster cast of one of the bodies wasn’t so much haunted as heartbreaking, and the city itself is so…it’s so well preserved that I think the state of preservation itself eradicates the hauntedness. What I could not get…
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bucket list
I recall, in college, writing what would now be referred to as a Bucket List. I don’t remember much of what was on it–publish 50 books and own a black stallion are the two items I remember. (Even at the time, the former seemed more likely than the latter.) A couple years ago I went to the Hill of Tara, which, thanks to Madeline L’Engle, was Bucket List material for me, and I tell you what, I think this is one for the Bucket List, too: Earth Meets Sky: the…
