Last October, Todd and I visited a salad joint in the DC metro area called Sweet Green. It’s not all that unusual to see compostable cups these days, but not every restaurant actually composts...
The Problem: How Plastic Becomes Pollution Plastic collects in lakes, rivers, and the ocean. It breaks down in sunlight (photo-degrades) into small pieces. Birds such as albatrosses, turtles, and...
Today is my eldest brother Matt’s birthday. He was born in 1952, so he would have been 61. He died in late January 2012. I was missing him today, thinking of how I wish I could have broken...
I was stumped by my funk last week. What did I have to complain about? I’d had my week of checkups, and was told that everything was okay. I’d been felt up by two female doctors and a...
Todd and Beth go to Navajoland to see Star Wars dubbed into Navajo.
From our campsite at East Fork campground, where some firefighters are staying, we can smell the West Fork fire, but we really haven't seen it. Just smoke in our lungs, and a little in the valley in...
Beth meets a homeless veteran in Scott Carpenter Park.
We spent three nights in New York City on my third visit there, graciously hosted by friends from college. I felt I was grabbing at an experience that was always moving on, away from me.
I traveled a lot in May, which gave me the opportunity to take pictures of new places. I took this picture of an American bittern from the road in Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in central Kansas...
Beth makes her first foray into photography sales.
I just heard about a new treatment device for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) and wanted to share the news with my readers. This bioelectromagnetic device is called TheraBionic, and...
Ah, Claremont. We stayed in New Hampshire for three nights with a friend who despised the place and has since left it for the other coast. Our friend lived on the top floor of a bright yellow house...
I’ve been working on my photography site for a while, and I’ve decided it’s ready for public viewing. So head on over to Beth Partin Photos, which is a SmugMug site, check out my...
The Local Food Summit in Denver, organized by the Mile High Business Alliance, was informative and great fun. But the strongest memory I took from it is of the woman who asked this question at the...
I’m sitting in the game chair I bought for $10 from Goodwill, on the top floor of the town home Todd and I are renting until the end of January. We are near 28th and Jasmine in Park Hill. It...
Beth stops by The Spot for a light lunch, and likes it.
Beth doesn't love Burlington, but she does find good chocolate and reasonable birding there.
Beth's visit to Niagara Falls is, well, anticlimactic.
Beth and Todd find coffee nirvana in the middle of Ohio.
No, it’s not green eggs and ham. It’s an eco-friendly continental breakfast at Glass House Inn in Erie, Pennsylvania. Never in all my years of travel have a seen a motel do it up this way...
Beth has a lovely lunch in an unexpected location: semi-rural Indiana.
Beth and Todd spend a couple of days in Dubuque. Todd was doing USARS roller derby, and Beth was editing and photographing.
After eight months of cancer treatment, Beth find travel to be a bit stressful at first. But she's in Iowa! What could be better?
Beth visits her mother's gravesite for the first time in twenty years, which makes her sound like a terrible daughter.
If you followed our travels here in 2011, you may be interested to know that we’re starting to travel again. Starting September 7, we’re leaving Denver and setting out on a trip through...