"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
What’s going on in my life
No, I didn’t remember our anniversary one day late … I just didn’t get around to mentioning it here until the next day. There is a difference, right? God, so young, so scared! Well, here we are 46 years later, and it’s still scary if we think about too hard, so we mostly don’t. Except […]
Photoblogging last weekend’s ride with my son Gregory in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona, 500 hard but beautiful miles on two new BMWs: Itinerary, day one (Saturday): Las Vegas NV to Laughlin NV (via US 93) Laughlin NV to Kingman AZ Kingman AZ to Oatman AZ (via Rt 66) Oatman AZ to Kingman AZ Kingman […]
Well, it does, doesn’t it? We drove to Las Vegas to spend Thanksgiving and the weekend with our son, daughter in law, granddaughter, and grandson. To make the family gathering complete, our daughter Polly came with us. We got in Wednesday evening and headed home Monday, sans Polly, who stayed behind in Las Vegas to […]
We drove to our son Gregory’s house in Las Vegas Wednesday; me Donna, Polly, and Schatzi. We’re spending the weekend with Greg, our daughter-in-law Beth, and our grandkids Taylor and Quentin. I’d post a photo here but I’m hunting and pecking this out on an iPad and I can’t get WordPress to “see” the photos […]
We try to keep the world from intruding on our happy lives, but sometimes all defenses fail. I don’t mean to make light of what happened at UC Davis, and god knows the photo itself is horrifying, but this photoshop somehow makes the latest pepper spraying incident all the more Orwellian: What a world we […]
I just ended the longest no-flats streak I’ve had since taking up bicycling again a few years ago. The culprit: the dreaded goathead, a thorn that detaches itself from the devil tree it grows on and then, through some kind of plant/asphalt magnetism, migrates unerringly to the nearest bicycle path. What amazed me, once I […]
We’re spending Thanksgiving in Las Vegas with our son and his family. We won’t hit the road until next Wednesday … which means we weren’t there yesterday for our grandson Quentin’s 9th birthday. Gregory and Beth hired an animal wrangler to entertain Quentin and his guests. What a great idea! There were snakes, snapping turtles, […]
I don’t mean to toot my own horn as a veteran … I had it easy in the military, and as a fighter pilot had the best job anybody could possibly have … but I thought you’d enjoy the photo. Yes, we were young (believe it or not, we still feel the way we looked […]