Welcome to the Project!

I recently saw Julie and Julia with my wife, and was stricken by the similarity in my life and Julie's. After 42 years of teaching, I will retire. My life needed direction as did Julie's. She decided to cook all of the items in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year. I could never do that, so I decided to attempt my version of it. Inspired by William Blake's line in his poem Auguries of Innocence, " To see a world in a grain of sand . . . " I want to collect samples of sand from all 50 states and territories (and beyond) in one year, and post their stories to a website. Check in here for weekly updates on my progress.