"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
“Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.” — Ian McDonald, The Dervish House We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van Buren A tell-all expose of American mismanagement of the reconstruction of Iraq. The author is a career foreign […]
When I started conducting walking tours at the Pima Air & Space Museum a few months ago, I quickly realized I’d talk myself hoarse if I didn’t overcome a certain egotistical reluctance to use a portable voice amplifier and speaker. The museum had two but they were big heavy things, each one powered by eight […]
We adopted a second dachshund yesterday. Her name is Maxie. We think she’s a year or so younger than Schatzi. The dog was originally a boyfriend’s pet. Maxie (full name Maxine) wound up with the girlfriend, who is the daughter of our friend Lorri, moving from apartment to apartment (five in the last year alone), […]
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 […]
I’ve wanted to ride BMW’s new six-cylinder flagship touring bike ever since it came out. Last weekend I had my chance: two days and over 500 miles on a 2011 K 1600 GTL. I’d driven up to Las Vegas to spend Thanksgiving with my son Gregory in Las Vegas. Greg, as he has done before, […]
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 […]