Matthews, North Carolina, USA

If your meals come from the farmers' market here in Matthews, you are considered a locavore. In fact, you are a premium locavore since your food comes from producers located within 50 miles of town rather than the standard 100-mile radius which is the outer limit of a locavore's range. But, let's face it, most of us are distavores. [2020]

Lisbon, Portugal

Sixty trams serve Lisbon. This one serves the tourist destinations, of which there are many in this former imperial capital. It almost looks as if it goes back to the early 1900s when fixed-rail transit first arrived in the city. [2009]

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon's trams run on the electricity provided by overhead lines, so don't think that EVs, or electric vehicles, are something new. Line 15 trams are modern and air-conditioned, while other lines resemble trams of yesteryear. [2009] 

Lisbon, Portugal

Crowded bus stops, lifespan diversity on city streets, elevated (really elevated) highways soaring over 6-story buildings, no private automobiles in sight, plus a small fleet of night buses materializing after dark: Rarely do you see such scenes in American cities. [2009]

Topeka, Kansas, USA

Only a few blocks away from the Westboro Baptist "Church" is the University United Methodist Church, with the rainbow colors of the LGBTQ community flaming away out front and seeming to complement the flame that engulfs the stained-glass window. Would you expect anything less from a church next to a college campus? [2021]

Topeka, Kansas, USA

Right across the street from the hate group Westboro Baptist "Church" stands the Equality House, proudly painted in the colors of the LGBTQ flag (see it flying?) and now proudly donning a Black Lives Matter placard. The other flag is the blue-pink-white transgender standard. [2021]

Topeka, Kansas, USA

This is no April Fools joke! But the three of us laughed anyway. "It's worse than we thought," we proclaimed to each other. Yes, Westboro Baptist "Church" has become a tourist attraction. If it is really a church (though it looks more like a fortress), why were there no services on Palm Sunday morning? In fact, there was no activity at all. [2021]