It was a very good festival. The parade was huge.

Now we have started something. We may have to visit Racine, Wis., or Solvang, Calif. (two other Danish heritage communities), or we might come back here.

There are so many people with Danish connections. It was fun meeting and visiting with them.

Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.

Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.