A report from Paris
May 12, 2018
Marcia and Jack Schnedler, this blog’s occasional globetrotters, are back in Paris for something like the 30th time since their first visit to the City of Light in 1970. Some Parisian pleasures are forever, like lolling at a sidewalk cafe …
Joe’s Stone Crab
March 19, 2018
Jack and Marcia Schnedler, our peripatetic contributors, have rarely missed a meal in a half-century of trotting the globe — including all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as all seven continents. They even ate lunch at …
The joys — and snares — of instant global communication
September 17, 2017
Jack Schnedler, this blog’s occasional peripatetic correspondent, is back with wife Marcia in Iceland this month. It’s their fourth visit in six years to these longtime globetrotters’ currently favorite foreign destination. Both retired in 2011 from editor’s jobs at …
The final word from Ohio
November 10, 2016
In a darned close race, why did so many Clinton voters stay home? As Marcia and Jack Schnedler, our roving correspondents, head back to Little Rock from Toledo, Ohio, they are feeling more than a bit bedraggled after a …
On the road in Ohio
November 4, 2016
Blood Dirt & Angels’ roving correspondents, retired newspaper editors Jack and Marcia Schnedler, are back on the campaign trail in Ohio — infused this time with a whiff of anxiety. Here is a report by Jack from Toledo, sent on Friday. …
Pornagraphie alimentaire
June 18, 2016
blood,dirt & angels’ roving correspondents, Jack and Marcia Schnedler, rarely miss a meal on the road. Food and drink are among their prime travel pleasures, as witness these photos from their current trip to the French regions of Normandy and …
And now, from France, something completely different
June 8, 2016
By JACK & MACIA SCHNEDLER for blood, dirt & angels If you’re old and silly enough to remember the fish-slapping skit from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” you may appreciate the sight that greeted blood, dirt & angels globetrotters Jack …
Celebrating D-Day, 72 years later
June 5, 2016
By Jack Schnedler blood, dirt & angels Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy at Omaha Beach and four other designated landing areas. Only scattered nonagenarians remain alive among the tens of thousands of American, British …
On the road again, starting in Normandy
May 30, 2016
Jack and Marcia Schnedler are gallivanting once more as roving travel correspondents for Blood Dirt & Angels. They’ve embarked on a four-week trip that will feature celebration of Jack’s 73rd birthday in Paris and Marcia’s 73rd birthday four days later …
Morgan Neville’s A Fighting Chance
April 21, 2016
And here’s how we spent our first evening, at the premiere of Morgan Neville’s 30-minute doc, A Fighting Chance, which while obviously fitting in the promotional film category, tells three compelling stories about athletes from poor countries and their attempt …