This is the price you pay, people. You want my opinionated rants thoughtful commentary on religion and politics and sex; you have to put up with my vacation snapshots. Hopefully some of you will emerge from the horror unscarred. This is me and Ingrid in front of the Berwyn Spindle. Berwyn is a suburb of [...]

At the risk of sounding like a third-grader’s social studies report: Reno is a land of contrasts. It’s a city whose entire reason for being is to suck money from out-of-towners. (That’s even true historically — according to a plaque we saw on the river, one of the city’s founders was a gold rush prospector [...]