I didn’t have my phone with me at the beach. On vacation I really do decouple from my electronics. So by the time I snapped pictures of this snake the sun had done its work and the sand sculpture was nowhere near as impressive as it had been several hours beforehand. Making one of these […]
I have no artistic talent. My stick-figure drawings don’t even look like stick figures. When I was a child, my attempts at sand castles never caused people on the beach to stop and admire. And rightly so. They were underwhelming at best. Which is why I am impressed when I see people who can look […]
The internet is a great thing – but it is also the source of misinformation, disinformation, misquotes and outright lies. So when I saw this quote, my first impulse was to distrust it. Yes, it sounded like something Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and prophet would say. But did he? My thought was probably not, that […]
I first posted these in August 2015. I try to catch at least one sunrise every year when we visit Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The photos let you see the sun slowly rising over the Atlantic Ocean. Later this month I’ll show some of the several sunrises I watched on this year’s vacation
As we headed into the van for our hour-long balloon ride over Cappadocia, my friend Mike asked “so how much does this cost?” I told him we had a discount – 150 Euros each. The look on his face said it all. He doesn’t have my stinginess, but he’s not a spendthrift either. I could […]
Cappadocia is one of the top three places on the planet to go for a hot air balloon ride, or so I have been told (the others, if you were wondering are the pyramids in Egypt and the Loire Valley in France). And for very good reason – the view is spectacular. I had never […]
I always say that I haven’t been anywhere. I have visi- ted around 20 countries, but in my family that isn’t very many – I think my two-year-old grandson has been to ten already. One of my favorites was a trip to Turkey, especially Cappadocia, in 2014. With that in mind, for the next three […]
Politicians today are subject to far more constraints than those of previous generations. People are quick to take offense, and God help you if you say something that doesn’t flow with the prevailing winds of society. It wasn’t always so though, as I was reminded on a visit to France in 2014. The words jumped […]
I was thinking about electric cars the other day. I don’t own one, and don’t expect to own one for at least another decade. I’m not sure they will last. More than a hundred years ago we had electric (and steam powered) vehicles, but the technology wasn’t good enough to last. So I will wait […]
I have to admit, I’d never heard of it before. But it was one of the highlights of the month spent in Europe in the summer of 2014 – and helped inspire the creation of this blog. The broken camera made absolutely no sense to me; or to Vivian for that matter. Why would a […]
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