https://chipwalter.com/mumbles daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/origin-of-twas-the-night-before-christmas-clement-clarke-moore monthly 0.5 2025-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/747f80ad-1d03-4552-98d4-5cb045b8b7f7/Twas_the_Night_Before_Christmas_Moore.jpg Mumbles - The Origin of Clement Clarke Moore’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas” - Make it stand out If you would like to view the original book that Houghton Mifflin published 112 years ago, please get your copy from the Vagabond Adventure Store. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/why-set-a-mystery-in-a-little-arctic-town-utqiagvik-alaska monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/21c1a1b7-9b38-4286-949d-6c452be32274/IMG_3591.jpeg Mumbles - Why Set a Mystery in a Little Arctic Town? - Make it stand out Utqiagvik — the end of the Earth is here. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/meet-ms-schuster-mccoy-phd-protagonist-of-white-out-novel-by-chip-walter monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1657d3fa-df35-4a00-a916-6917c93448c9/WhiteOutCoverChatVersion-2025.png Mumbles - Meet Ms. Schuster McCoy, Ph.D. - Make it stand out This is one possible cover for the book we are exploring. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/the-next-human monthly 0.5 2025-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489564-J8VQVARE88Z84OY7DW7W/The+Future+-pexels-tara-winstead-8386440.jpg Mumbles - Cybersapiens: The Next Human - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/why-we-kiss monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/c2f06666-9025-4611-87c7-bf57082c1f93/Pursed_Lips.png Mumbles - Why We Kiss - Make it stand out Lips - They Do More Than You Think https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231492725-AOHDN1IRHP2AYAUVK020/1*xrJV_m3MkicmoonI-X8Ozw.png Mumbles - Why We Kiss - Make it stand out A 2-D Sensory Homunculus — Our brains see our lips, tongues and nose like this. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/the-miracle-of-the-human-hand monthly 0.5 2025-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489455-LEQ3DQ7TPRQAUKYN7O7J/pexels-min-an-1454797-Min+Ha.jpg Mumbles - The Miracle of the Human Hand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489458-BKWHQM83BX937OGIGVHL/Creation+of+Adam+-+Touch.jpg Mumbles - The Miracle of the Human Hand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/white-out-novel-announcement monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/f699ad8e-403e-4b06-bc83-a12e2a4728f8/Utqiagvik_at_dawn.jpeg Mumbles - The Next Novel Cometh - Make it stand out Utqiaġvik at dawn. The Northernmost human habitation in the United States and located well into the Arctic Circle, the town is now the location for my next mystery. But I first visited it as I walked the town’s streets in October 2016 while researching my non-fiction book Immortality, Inc. for National Geographic. — (Photo - Chip Walter) https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/12-great-books-for-eclectic-readers-al6ts monthly 0.5 2025-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1713207001473-PTFIFZ462RTPWFDTK456/iStock-1206796363.jpg Mumbles - Is the Human Race Making Itself Unnecessary? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231491318-E436Q1IBHVGIRZ09M64C/Jupiter%27s+Travels.jpg Mumbles - Is the Human Race Making Itself Unnecessary? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/b0fbc394-f00f-432a-b749-8040599e4f34/Medusa_and_the_Snail_Book_Cover.png Mumbles - Is the Human Race Making Itself Unnecessary? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/the-baseball monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231491008-TTFSH88ZNEKZILAJ5R5X/The+Baseball.jpg Mumbles - The Baseball - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231491011-ULKIIQOJ1KHY3ST3SV2H/Main+Street+Cooperstown.jpg Mumbles - The Baseball - Make it stand out Main St. Cooperstown, New York (Photo - visitingnewengland.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231491014-ORU2FHI0X79R2S5BMOT5/Doubleday+Field.jpg Mumbles - The Baseball - Make it stand out Doubleday Field (Photo - offmetro.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231491017-XJWRBA26XOGVHQZI6RPW/Baseball.jpg Mumbles - The Baseball - Make it stand out The Original Baseball? (Photo- Chip Walter) https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/a-prisoner-of-sand monthly 0.5 2024-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490999-VC6Z2SHHASYD8POI2V0M/The+Sahara.jpg Mumbles - A Prisoner of Sand - Make it stand out The Sahara https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/the-power-of-laughter monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490800-UP9RX7RFOL980X2Y4RW9/Man+Laughing.jpg Mumbles - The Power of Laughter - Make it stand out Photo by — The International Moment of Laughter Day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490803-C9F4002CIR7YVEEH1EWL/Laughing+Sculptures.jpg Mumbles - The Power of Laughter - Make it stand out The Laughter Sculptures - Vancouver (Photo - Chip Walter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490806-NR34R9QGZTS88Q21VGVR/Laughing+Chimpanzee.jpg Mumbles - The Power of Laughter - Make it stand out Photo - How Stuff Works https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/mating-with-neanderthals-and-other-joys-of-prehistoric-life monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490783-MNL60G06J224OOMRNFEC/neanderthal.jpg Mumbles - Mating With Neanderthals and Other Joys of Prehistoric Life - Make it stand out An artists conception of a Neanderthal man (Drawing by Frank Harris) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490786-7I0GKPQ2HG0HSL6GKHVZ/Homo+Floresiensis+Cave.jpg Mumbles - Mating With Neanderthals and Other Joys of Prehistoric Life - Make it stand out The Immense Cave Where the Remains of the Homo Floresiensis People Were Found (Photo Wikimedia Commons) A mystery still confounding anthropologists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490789-7A243Q4V6QJ52H9PXHN7/Red+Deer+Cave+Human+Remains.jpg Mumbles - Mating With Neanderthals and Other Joys of Prehistoric Life - Make it stand out Human remains from the Red Deer Cave people (upper left, newly described thigh bone; upper right, skull bones and tooth), the Maludong fossil site (bottom left) and an artist’s reconstruction of a Red Deer Cave man. Credit: Darren Curnoe, Ji Xueping & Peter Schouten. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/the-secret-life-of-water monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490759-5IIM9XN98IVY7Z6ITZJA/Earth+Forming.jpg Mumbles - The Secret Life of Water - Make it stand out Earth Forming 4 billion years ago. Photo - UniverseToday.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490763-0IR9TXE0U8NVY2QLCHEJ/Golden+Fall+-+Iceland.jpg Mumbles - The Secret Life of Water - Make it stand out Golden Fall - Iceland (Photo - Chip Walter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490768-3B6H3LJ8CYIYSFEWA7CN/Colorado+River+Rocky+Mountains.jpg Mumbles - The Secret Life of Water - Make it stand out The Colorado River cuts its way through the Rocky Mountains (Photo - Chip Walter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490771-WN3R78P90KJOKMZ6CXNZ/Sveitarf%C3%A9lagi%C3%B0+Hornafj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur+-+East+Iceland.jpg Mumbles - The Secret Life of Water - Make it stand out Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður,East Iceland (Photo – Chip Walter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490775-Y4GT7WULVF0S1GXLMYKE/Blue+Whale+-+Largest+Undersea+Creature.jpg Mumbles - The Secret Life of Water - Make it stand out The largest of undersea creatures - The Blue Whale https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/six-science-books-that-changed-my-life-they-could-change-yours-too monthly 0.5 2024-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384600-Z3EYTSPEPWY4FKMMK794/1*c2xFQDTIjOPPItWfv4MtGA.jpeg Mumbles - Six Science Books That Changed My Life. They Could Change Yours Too. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384603-Y1VM9H0GUV4KUUHOAVOX/1*pSiAVlJi1kO_iASn1kEhfw.png Mumbles - Six Science Books That Changed My Life. They Could Change Yours Too. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384606-BEZ4K8WI13L9LPCV5JLW/1*hbA_2clKWRvrnyXDvYGUVw.jpeg Mumbles - Six Science Books That Changed My Life. They Could Change Yours Too. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384608-6QKH7GC8VN6R4NTVB9OD/1*tDw2pvf30JlN5s2ycRlsFw.jpeg Mumbles - Six Science Books That Changed My Life. They Could Change Yours Too. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384611-MDAYU2LPZYPEE6C34TK1/1*nDaEslLPXG1mrMPOdpzhKA.jpeg Mumbles - Six Science Books That Changed My Life. They Could Change Yours Too. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384614-UKUA623D73SYEV9SPZ8S/1*679hSPe9JTsa-5lbUH2lTw.jpeg Mumbles - Six Science Books That Changed My Life. They Could Change Yours Too. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/is-living-forever-really-possible monthly 0.5 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231490750-NWF1L67O39T9N2BAYJA3/A30884AE-192F-40E6-A3AA-50AA1E8ADDB8.jpeg Mumbles - Is Living Forever Really Possible? - Make it stand out Immortality, Inc. - Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions and the Quest to Live Forever. A limited supply of copies signed by the author are available here. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/the-worst-journey-in-the-world monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489489-NUZGZ8ZGRGGFYB3QJQM8/seaice_03_hr_0.jpg Mumbles - The World’s Most Remarkable Journey - Make it stand out The forbidding ice and snow of Antarctica. It is sometimes warmer on Mars than it is in Antarctica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489493-WJNHMTWUETHZVLR68MHQ/Cherry-Gerrard-Wilson-and-Bowers.jpg Mumbles - The World’s Most Remarkable Journey - Make it stand out Cherry-Garrard, Wilson and Bowers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489496-THE3AI9AGUI2OYZXIRIC/Apsley+Cherry-Garrard-before-expedition.jpg Mumbles - The World’s Most Remarkable Journey - Make it stand out Apsley Cherry-Garrard before and after the adventure. (Photos – The Scott Expedition) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489500-OHCKY6HG4WXU5OCJJ1F0/Apsley+Cherry-Garrard-after-expedition.jpg Mumbles - The World’s Most Remarkable Journey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489503-YLIE6XD9830T06N2AHVZ/Eggs.jpg Mumbles - The World’s Most Remarkable Journey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489506-1XMZXIXVJ2H6435RY1UC/Scotts-Team.jpg Mumbles - The World’s Most Remarkable Journey - Make it stand out Scott’s team: They made it to the South Pole, but they would fail to return home alive. (Photo: The Scott Expedition) https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/genesis-the-human-race-arrives monthly 0.5 2025-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489475-NWJ0GW44JLWWBQ3TJ0C0/Savanna.jpg Mumbles - Genesis - The Human Race Arrives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489478-T2TB5F5ZHV1O1SDC9JNA/pexels-david-atkins-6194629-.jpg Mumbles - Genesis - The Human Race Arrives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489482-IQAHECCYGVKMGB341L8J/Prehistoric+Cat.jpg Mumbles - Genesis - The Human Race Arrives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/why-we-walk-the-way-we-do monthly 0.5 2024-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231489468-BDATNSM4GK2ENG3E1K8L/pexels-david-atkins-6194629-.jpg Mumbles - Why We Walk the Way We Do? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/immortality-inc-off-with-a-bang monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384592-RIWD2I9OTKE4LA4BTNX3/A30884AE-192F-40E6-A3AA-50AA1E8ADDB8.jpeg Mumbles - Immortality, Inc. Off With a Bang! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384594-H7RVRQSS4GGTF4O2IR2D/Chip+-+Commonwealth+Club+2.jpg Mumbles - Immortality, Inc. Off With a Bang! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/do-you-have-questions-about-immortality-inc monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384586-54QOLYMA9L6RMYFAS1RT/Immortality-cover_small.jpg Mumbles - Do You Have Questions About Immortality, Inc.? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-dispatch-12-an-update monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384569-EYQKLMW57NWC2IDNX1LG/ImmortalityFlapCover_v1-copy-scaled.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #12: An Update - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384572-0E19O305SI62VNB6BFMD/DSCN5869.jpeg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #12: An Update - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384575-AG4C3Q7I9CEJ70TX5XVS/ChipatUNNewYork2013-copy.jpeg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #12: An Update - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384578-2SDX4EQCIAQWT82G8F2A/0416RFS618.jpeg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #12: An Update - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384580-YAIWE10YGHBVWT93F41C/0416RFS958.jpeg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #12: An Update - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-11-istanbul monthly 0.5 2025-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384548-FB4R75TM77F42WAWJZE3/DSCN6249.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing #11: Istanbul - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384551-Y6COYIZOQ8TBJ1Q8MGGX/Istanbul.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing #11: Istanbul - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384554-Z3GXBV85AFOHC4DYJB92/DSCN6268.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing #11: Istanbul - Make it stand out View of the Old City of Istanbul, where the first Greeks settlers created tie colony more than 3000 years ago. The Golden Horn river beyond the buildings runs into the larger Bosphorus Straits which separate Europe from Asia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384557-90DCTXYFXZBTQUBI3QGS/DSCN6307.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing #11: Istanbul - Make it stand out A view of the boats where Istanbul’s famed fish sandwiches are grilled and served. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384559-V92JY2RDSRQ6TCN7157I/DSCN6254.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing #11: Istanbul - Make it stand out Just above the Ottoman style ships where the fish are grilled, hundreds of locals fish from the bridge that spans the Golden Horn. It’ start practical and part social. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384562-VAUOZJHQQWY5C0X81TOU/Iskitlal.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing #11: Istanbul - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-dispatch-10-france monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384530-H563D1JQDGK017DI3LNY/IMG_1269.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #10: France - Make it stand out A sliver of Paris’s Latin Quarter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384532-5EKRGDMORR6BTD6JOB66/IMG_1262.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #10: France - Make it stand out Proof that Heinz is everywhere… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384535-R5CHT3AVUJ0SGM7FCPDU/IMG_1265.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #10: France - Make it stand out Directly across the park, Victor Hugo wrote two of his greatest works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384537-W547NCZY6J3GEYBS7L9P/DSCN1210.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #10: France - Make it stand out Eleanor of Acquitaine, one of the great women of any time or place, walked up this street 900 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384540-N6HUHYXRKW6S8ET1O6GF/DSCN1197.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #10: France - Make it stand out St. Bernard gave his sermon here and launched the Second Crusade, which in a strange way helped make the U.S. Constitution the fine document it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384543-GUM3DDP2ICG5DBDUINSJ/DSCN1183.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #10: France - Make it stand out The chamber in the caves at Arcy sur Cur where we staged the “Paleo-Concert” using ancient instruments. It was quite an experience. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-dispatch-9-spain-9852d monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384516-LUCFNN53IT1BJC367ILH/DSCN0847.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #9: Spain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384519-JE8IXTYY2X6R3D8QWEYO/DSCN0849.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #9: Spain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384522-HFLP7HPMSDGWCJBUGK7C/DSCN0881.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #9: Spain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384524-39SYHSR9L7JU66P11K1A/DSCN0910.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #9: Spain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-dispatch-8-spain-amp-portugal monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384504-Y4LMBTOREO6LGJHJXMV0/DSCN0817.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #8: Spain & Portugal - Make it stand out The eye-popping Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. 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Think about it! https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-dispatch-7-home-for-a-minute-and-a-cabbies-remarkable-story monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384498-THUYRL6UYG24FF13PDNI/pittsburgh-3.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #7: Home (for a Minute) and a Cabbie’s Remarkable Story - Make it stand out Pittsburgh – Home Sweet Home https://chipwalter.com/mumbles/last-ape-standing-dispatch-6-close-encounters-of-the-baboon-kind monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703231384485-BFH03WB16B587XB963VO/CloseEncounter0.jpg Mumbles - Last Ape Standing Dispatch #6: Close Encounters of the Baboon Kind - Make it stand out This is the first of a series. In panel #1 a female baboon walks toward the bush. 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This is Victor Hugo Park, a special place to me to me because at the other end of the park, Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables in a second-floor garret. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006272-6RQ1N14S1B3HWE66TB3Y/1-TiberRiver.JPG Europe The Tiber River runs through Rome. Legend has it that the twins Romulus and Remus were abandoned on the river’s banks in 753 BC, but rescued and suckled by Luca, a she-wolf. She saved them and led them to the glory that became Rome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006328-72MP74TLIJCPR76E30X3/ZJNOuGtk.jpg Europe I believe Venice is buckling beneath the weight of its millions of tourists, but you can see why so many come here. It is unique and beautiful. And, after all, we became those tourists too. It’s a dilemma. How to enjoy the world, but not destroy the very places we love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006024-QCXLN8V2Y5LK1DVS048M/8-ShakespeareandCo..jpg Europe Some of the greatest writers of the 20th century spent their time at this bookstore - Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, (Pittsburgher) Gertrude Stein. To sit and read on the second floor, as I did, thrilled me like a child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006082-66SYAEZDHBUJ4CDH2RCB/2-AthensMarket-NightAcropolis.jpeg Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006166-XU3FRHXW7RHYWDJQ7V9W/2-IcelandicMountain.jpeg Europe These bare, majestic mountains are everywhere in Iceland which is constantly being recreated on the top of an enormous submarine volcano. The tiny house at the base of the mountain gives you an idea of its size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006176-2UF0GPNPXAKI1M4XQ5YB/1-GoldenFalls.jpeg Europe The Gullfoss (Golden Falls) in Southern, Iceland is spectacular. More water tumbles over these falls than Niagara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006244-LDW2J1ATLPCEIS6S4H0X/2-+BelowColiseum.JPG Europe The coliseum has two levels. Gladiators awaited their fate in the underground chambers. As they entered, they would say, “Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant!” "Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you!” (Not that they had much to say about it.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006299-04KKOO6FA45CSN3AEGTK/2-BridgeofSighs.jpg Europe The famous Bridge of Sighs where so many were sent to the prison cells on the right, sobbing, or worse, as they headed into a dark place where tortuous things often happened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005980-HSRHCYR20M4LHFK5GUR2/9-WalkingtoChauvetCave.jpg Europe For "The First Artists" we were only the second journalists in the world allowed into Chauvet Cave, home to the world's most ancient art. This was part of the 700-foot ascent to the cave mouth, located in the French countryside about two hours north of Marseilles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006088-OZG1131W5WHWH2TPSAQX/3-Donkeys+of+Hydra.jpg Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006203-YU3APO9PKW1ECV44U01L/3-GlacierWideShot.jpeg Europe My guide and I were the only people who would ascend the glacier at the base of Iceland’s highest mountain - Hvannadalshnuku. You can see its beckoning tongue. Christian, my guide, told me that 10 years ago, the ice would have reached to where we were currently standing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006310-FQIH2A1UT6Z72W841S89/3-GrandCanal.jpeg Europe Venice’s Grand Canal, Main Street for this unique and magnificent city. Some one once described Venice as magical to me. Perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006255-IBB9CPB1YD1JZUBYZZO0/6-InteriorRomanColiseum.JPG Europe Interior of the Coliseum of Rome. The coliseum was so large and elaborate that battles at sea could be re-enacted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005996-NSMAVIUINAE8SLXSOIIF/11-DescendingIntoChauvet.jpg Europe Once at the cave entrance, we crawled into our Hazmat suits and entered the submarine door to the cave floor. It was like another world, and another time – a sacred place, both beautiful and awe-inspiring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006076-RM0RJA9U2OKYGL3B457U/4-HydraBay.jpg Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006191-VNUI42OJ3SVURA88J6KN/4-GlacietTighter.jpeg Europe As we began walking toward the enormous glacier, I could see the evidence of its retreat, a victim of climate change. Where once there had been millions of tons of ice, now there was only water, rock and dirt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006250-CZCA01G9786SKKUP2CQG/4-ColiseumDifferent+View.JPG Europe Large retractable awnings above the coliseum shaded spectators. They would have hung from the left of the structure, made of canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006316-GZMEOT6G4H6SC9ZPKB4Z/4-ToweratSanMarco.jpg Europe The dominating Tower at San Marco Square, a 1912 reconstruction of the original tower, which collapsed in 1902. It’s almost 300 feet tall (30 stories) and the tallest structure in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006031-OX7ZUWH439AHW5C80GDX/10-TheFourHorsesOfChauvet.jpeg Europe These four horse heads maybe be the most remarkable drawings in all of Chauvet Cave; beautifully rendered in charcoal, drawn on protruding rock so that as you shift to the right or left, they appear as if they are moving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006103-6Y1LQSUTAF8XYPGNGTSM/5-Icarus.JPG Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006160-XDLWQD054V0C2WJIX9QK/5-ChipInGlacier.jpeg Europe I could stand inside some crevasses, but some of them are deadly because if you lose your footing, you can fall hundreds of feet into the abyss below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006277-EMGVVU9O0OTE6RXVLAY2/ViewFromColFloor.JPG Europe If you were unfortunate enough to be a gladiator prepared to fight on the floor of the Coliseum, you might have faced this view as you gazed up at tens of thousands of roaring Romans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006046-YA18YD3CQGOAXA1F0DVF/6-ChauvetCaveInterior.jpg Europe A small section of Chauvet Cave. We saw art everywhere, even in small corners. We spent two hours a day for three days there. The cave is hermetically sealed to protect it from any damage. The nation of France created an exact, but scaled back replica of the art in a magnificent museum nearby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006097-YMC94GND1DIX2RO03LPY/6-Icarus%26Sun.jpeg Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006109-YWFFPLPVPPACJVGTQ4ZF/1-Athen%27s+Parthenon.JPG Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006197-2F5IMAXQVSBLNAMC0QK0/6-ChipClimbingGlacier.jpeg Europe Once on the glacier, we began to ascend into the highest section that was still safe, about halfway up the mountain side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006234-6SWBYB6H55OVCXRP87NC/3-ColiseumatNight.JPG Europe A nighttime view of the Coliseum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006322-7KB3ERBN29PM5XRF34H7/6-VenetianGarbageBarge.jpg Europe Even in Venice, you have to haul the trash somewhere, somehow. I caught this barge trolling by and had to take the picture! It’s not every day you see this sort of garbage truck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005988-YC6ZUGQE6UAXRO6766RO/1-Yogi.jpeg Europe A rendition of an enormous cave bear (grizzly-sized but not meat or man eating). One single perfect line captures the whole image, down to the dragging paw barely visible at the bottom left. I called him "Yogi" because he looked almost sweet to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006133-914J6Z5NB158GB6YU48D/7-The+Blue+Water+of+the+Agean+Sea.JPG Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006182-NADU9YTCEQIIGKVENQGG/7-ChipAfterGlacierHike.jpeg Europe After our hike, Christian’s co-worker suggested we pose, ice ax in hand. It was a terrific time; a remarkable experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006229-I21NHR1K5HABU0PRO0B7/5-GroundFloorForum.JPG Europe A ground floor view of Rome’s Forum. You can imagine the city, filled with thousands of people walking among the immense and colorful markets and monumental buildings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006305-S5AADJLFWR1L7EG6JWO7/7-Ah%2C+Venice.jpeg Europe A fall afternoon at the sun-drenched docks of Venice. Think of the ships and people who have been coming in and out of here for a thousand years; the days when Venetian merchants began taking command of the Mediterranean and the Silk Road to Afghanistan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006009-9A6RQDC1GLYIFU7LSOO0/2-AnimatedRhinosOfChauvet.jpeg Europe Part of Chauvet’s “Grand Gallery.” Artists and anthropologists have debated over why these wooly rhinos seem to be vibrating. A theory: the artist did it purposely as part of a ritual. By flickering firelight - the animals may have appeared as though they were moving -- an optical illusion, something like today’s animated movies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006139-5PXVHYRJLPB4SWM3HXI8/8-The+Place+Where+Icarus+Plunged.JPG Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006171-TG3FR4VZ85CO49ZTMDFK/8-Iceland%E2%80%99sHighestMountain.jpeg Europe This is the view of Hvannadalshnuku mountain from the base where we began our ascent. I took it just before leaving because suddenly the sky cleared, and the magnificent mountain revealed itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006240-IC0S26W142XPOX8RM5KG/7-RomanForum.JPG Europe This was the main thoroughfare of Rome over 2000 years ago. At the peak of the empire, more than a million people lived here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006017-33VR2WLF5S82QBANC7KI/3-LionsWalking.jpeg Europe These lions were drawn along the wall leading to the Grand Gallery. They are perfectly realistic, yet created using only a single continuous line. Masterful artwork. Cave lions are now extinct, but were half again as tall as today’s African lions. They had no manes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006116-IWNIIVM7U7DCL04FIXAA/9-TheAcropolis.jpg Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006282-YLFZ9MF0XPE77X9CPW9L/8-SchoolOfAthens.jpg Europe Raphael’s immortal painting — The School of Athens. One of my favorites, not only because of its beauty and as a remarkable example of realistic perspective, but because the characters in the painting include Plato talking with Aristotle, giants of western thinking. Raphael used Leonardo da Vinci as the model for Plato, a nod to the great polymath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006003-U2PG6U1HLDWT0Z1DN5BY/4-LionsProwling.jpeg Europe These drawings of pouncing cave lions were created by an artist in Chauvet Cave over 30,000 years ago. All art was done by firelight, from memory using only charcoal and pigment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006126-XMI71Q7SAZQQ6ZTJA7FS/10-Walking+the+Rock+of+Icarus.JPG Europe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006266-IX7UD41N7SMPOCA9OY5A/9-StPeter%27sRome-Pano.jpg Europe A panoramic view of St. Peter’s Basilica, gateway to the Vatican. Pope Julius II who worked closely with Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel wanted to create the Basilica, but neither of them ever saw it. It took another century before it was finally completed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232006038-7OXXSATSQ14LDMKTVKAX/5-Bison.jpeg Europe Another perfect rendition of a now extinct animal, a European bison. Of the scores of animals drawn throughout the immense cave, only horses remain. All others are now extinct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005860-RZSRD601FCSAG8PFWOA4/1-CathedralEdinburgh.jpg Europe The beautiful cathedral on High Street just below Edinburgh’s famous and famously ancient castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005878-K7Y2UJMY6F4HPSBNF1V9/20-The+Orkney+Islands+Are+So+Windy+There+Are+Almost+No+Trees.jpeg Europe The sun plays with the Orkney's clouds as they constantly roll over the land. The wind is so strong and continuous that trees simply never grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005928-QUKVJ9KR2OIECM4ZO5FX/21-The+village+of+Skara+Brae%2C+Europe%27s+Best-Preserved+Neolithic+Settlemen.jpeg Europe Skara Brae: was an intricate, almost hobbit-like farming village that thrived 5000 years ago; the same time ancient Egypt was ascendant. It is Europe's best-preserved stone-age settlement; incredibly advanced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005870-FG8ABBXCFV1XSZUYJA53/17-Skara+Brae+Interiors+With+Beds+and+Kitchens.jpeg Europe This is a view of one of Skara Brae’s eight homes with beds, fireplace, and kitchen so sensibly organized. Five thousand years ago, the weather was warmer and the sea wasn't nearly as close as you see it here (climate change). Roofs were probably thickly thatched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005902-UHDYR2YGUW6WZRWPXUH6/2-Edinburgh.jpeg Europe The moody, rich, historical city of Edinburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005828-V8E8HI6CZAU9EB5Z59YP/3-ElephantHouse.jpeg Europe This was the coffee shop where J. K. Rowling wrote much of the first two books in her series, and apparently plotted several others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005943-ERBKKQL0M3Y2ED4NTK3D/4-FriarsChurchYard.jpeg Europe Greyfriars Kirkyard (or Churchyard). Rowling drew some of the names of her characters from the gravestones there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005960-O0YQA01KATXQ9FU6JLN8/5-Ghosts-Edinburgh.jpeg Europe Edinburgh's Invisible Man. The Scots love ghostly and magical things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005935-UQTZM3EQ7V10C20GONKA/6-The+Famous+_Harry+Potter+Bridge_+in+Glenfinnan%2C+the+Highlands+of+Scotland.jpeg Europe A shot of the famous Harry Potter/Hogwart's train line on a blustery morning in the Scottish Highlands of Glenfinnan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005842-34H4E5FZAL6K2VNIZQ7T/7-Hogwarts_.jpeg Europe George Heriot's School just beyond Greyfriars inspired the dark spires and turrets that became Hogwarts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005886-E0QJU9GZNTZ1LE6DKTGN/8-Lochness.jpeg Europe Scotland’s famous Loch Ness "home" to “Nessie” the nation's massive Lochness Monster. Does an immense, unworldly creature swim beneath these cold waters? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005911-50WG3JJIGVV0KB53TR2G/9-Orkney+Islands+-+North+of+Scotland.jpeg Europe A panoramic view of Orkney's remarkable sky. These islands are located North of the Scottish Highlands, not far from Iceland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005920-OBLEPMKOMMM0C9U366MD/19-StonesofStennes-Wide.jpeg Europe A view of the enormous and ancient Stones of Stennes. Five thousand years old. No one is really sure how the civilization that placed them here managed the job. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005850-P45UIG639O8NFVEHI71M/18-Stennis%27+Stones+Are+at+Least+5000+years+Old.jpeg Europe A closer view of the Standing Stones of Stennes -- a World Heritage Site. My great grandmother (Molly McKid) lived here and moved to West Virginia after marrying my great-grandfather (Peter McQuade). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005895-JUZPVK9XWYH02C73030E/13-Ruins-Gurness.jpeg Europe Gurness Ruins in the wilds of Orkney North of Scotland. These ruins are over 2000 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65853f10f12743671049ca54/1703232005951-IRVXDFNXG1CBVBX5MM1P/14-The+Northwest+Coast+of+Scotland+-+Wow%21.jpeg Europe The west coast of the Scottish Highlands along the North Sea. 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