One of the most haunting moments in the movie, Patton, is the ending. George C. Scott walks across an empty moor, after dinner with one of his generals who has now surpassed him in rank, alone into the distance. We hear in the gravel of his famous rasp, “And a slave stood behind the conqueror [...]
Archive | September, 2009
LOVELY LEELANAU
I spent a few days last week with my Uncle Jack, my late mother’s oldest brother, at the tail end of a longer trip visiting family. Jack and his late wife retired years ago to Suttons Bay, in Leelanau County, Michigan. They had grown up sailing on Lake Huron out of Alpena. Grand Traverse Bay [...]
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Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life. 