
Most people who know me have heard me remark, “I was born in the South for a reason. I can’t handle temps below 70°F!”. Although I must admit that I, too, am weary of the weeks of 100°F+ heat that we’ve had in Texas this summer. And now, we are going to ICE-land! Really? From…

Half the fun for me in taking a trip is the planning. First, a follow-up to a my comment in Note 1 that this is our first “really big” trip post-pandemic. We did go on a “big” 12-day trip last fall to Greece with a half-day in Turkey. It was a fully escorted 10-day tour…

In my working years, I had a technical blog which I intended to convert to more personal entries upon retirement. Somehow, I never got around to doing more than one post announcing my intentions. Fast forward six years and here we are – we have traveled, we each experienced the loss of a parent, we…