For the past 20 years I’ve been a class mom, a Girl Scout co-leader, a cookie mom, a PTO Secretary, a PTO Vice President, a PTO President; I’ve sewn costumes for school plays, volunteered at field day, been a chairperson…
On our tour of Mammoth Cave National Park, Ranger Nolan said that the National Parks are what make America great and beautiful. Humans are what destroy the natural beauty of this country. And the super highway has destroyed what was…
An open apology to University of New England President James D. Herbert – I swear I wasn’t trying to hit you with the car! More on this later. The end of the summer usually means one thing…college students are returning…
Ever since Melissa and I began writing and posting on Karmel Knocking Around, friends and relatives have asked us what our favorite place is that we have visited. And we have visited some really great places over the last few…
ICE CREAM MAN! ICE CREAM MAN! Remember when you would get so excited hearing that music from off in the distance? You couldn’t hear your mother screaming at the top of her lungs for you to get your ass home…but…
We’re always looking for a great hike and we love to find trails that have moving water. What is it about the moving water that is so enticing? We had been to the Dingmans Ferry area before having gone to…
We do history here…We don’t glorify it; we don’t propagandize it and we certainly don’t trivialize it. History is not always glamorous. It can be messy, ugly, and brutal. But we choose to remember history and not hide it, lest…
The thought of cross country road trips always made me cringe. Being in the car for hours at a time, driving through a place you’re not familiar with. What if the car breaks down? What if we run out of…
OK…well…we did have SOME bags. But there was not going to be ANY haggling. We have been trying to rid ourselves of “stuff.” Melissa is a real minimalist and I, although a past collector of different kinds of “stuff,” I…
Any great pizza lover will revel in exploring and finding great new pizza experiences. Most native New Yorkers will tell you that it is difficult to find, forget about great, but just simply good pizza outside of the New York-New…