Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt

Life sometimes feels that way: You move too fast or too hard, barely noticing the side roads, rabbit trails, or byways in life that may lead to discovering those out of the way places rich with a life all its own...secret waterfalls, hidden glens and hallows, or that little wishing star that twinkles silently in the night.

A friend of mine in Pensacola, Florida reminded me in a recent email this blog is "kinda old." True, so true. Let's try dusting off things a bit. And is it September 2007 already?!?!