Take a Walk with Birkenstock

Last week we featured the lobby and hallways of DC's historic Willard Hotel. This week we are off to the magical city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, home to art galleries, fabulous restaurants, scenery,...

The historic columns of the Willard Hotel are now decked out in holiday cheer. There has been a hotel at this location since 1816. Rightly so, due to its location being just a 15-minute walk to t...

A Cloister is a covered walkway or open arcade surrounding a courtyard.  Enclosed within the perimeter walls, the cloister and courtyard are a controlled introspective environment. In a monastery,...

Last week our Take a Walk with Birkenstock series took us to the Estancia Basin in New Mexico and the ruins of the pueblo town Quarai. This week we will take a visual tour of Gran Quivira. At an...

Where is your favorite spot?   One of my favorite spots is the 4th row center seat in the Post Playhouse at Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska's Panhandle. For decades, we have had the pleas...

My great, great, great, great something or other was William Bradford of Mayflower fame. I think he is12 generations back. I know that because my mom put in a lot of work on the family genealogy. ...

Some innovations are so effective in solving a problem that they become a foundation to a culture. However, in doing so they also become so common that we fail to notice, appreciate or understand t...

As a kid I had an ailment called Perthes disease. It didn't persist long, but during a family trip to Carlsbad Caverns I was confined to a wheelchair. So, my childhood memory of Carlsbad is totall...

The customer restroom for our store is being nominated for Cintas' America's Best Restroom Contest. I wanted to share with you what makes our bathroom special, who built it and what drove the whim...