Tag Archives: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Bumper Cars
When I was younger I enjoyed riding the bumper cars at amusement parks and fairs. You know the ones, heavily padded vehicles colliding into each other at slow speeds. It’s pretty much impossible to get injured. I never thought I would see them in real life. Naples was a stopover on our Italian sojourn, an […]
Colosseum I – The Cross
This cross may have been the thing that moved me most when visiting Rome. I still get a little choked up thinking about what it signifies. The Roman Empire is long gone. Latin as a language is dead. Ironically, it was kept alive by the church for centuries, then abandoned with the move to the […]
Papal Audience
I’m sure they must have updated the system by now. It seemed so antiquated in 2009, it would seem even more so today. I figured since we were going to be in Rome we should take in a papal audience. Not a private one you understand, but the Wednesday public gathering in St. Peter’s Square. […]
Bric A Brac VI – Rome
They call Rome “The Eternal City.” While that may be overstating things a bit it is perhaps worth noting that I have more souvenir pieces of bric-a-brac from Rome that I rotate on my desk than from any other city. There is the snow globe of Pope John Paul II, who later this year will […]
Chocolate Overdose
When I was a child I had the impression that the best chocolate came from Switzerland. I’m not sure where this came from, marketing perhaps, it is true though that the Swiss make excellent chocolate. They are not alone of course. Canada has a few renowned chocolatiers, or at least they have a national reputation, […]
Does This Sign Belong Here?
Canada is a bilingual nation, though in parts of the country that is more theory than fact. When I was younger both England and France were acknowledges as our founding nations, and English and French were our national languages. Now it is more complicated, and it is commonly understood that Canada’s aboriginal population, the First […]
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
There are very few things more boring than watching baseball on television. I don’t remember when I last bothered to watch a game. It is about as interesting as watching paint dry. On the other hand, I love live baseball. There is something special about taking in a game on a hot summer afternoon, or […]
Under The Pier
I went for an early morning walk in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. I don’t usually go under the Pier and thought the view was different enough to share.
Sand Castles
I walked by this sand castle on the beach while it was being constructed, when it was finished and again after it had been washed away completely by the incoming tide. It was a big one, took a couple of adults several hours to construct. I have made my share of sand castles over the […]
Falling From The Skies
It was a year ago today that a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet was shot down in the skies over Ukraine, presumably by Russian-backed (and armed) rebels. There will be remembrance ceremonies in many countries today as families and friends continue to mourn. Airline tragedies receive a lot of publicity. When something goes wrong at 35,000 […]
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