Happy 90th, Mom!
My Mom turns 90 today with a big celebration. Lots of cousins coming, which will be fun. I’ve written about my Mom before so I won’t repeat it now. Just wanted to share this wonderful…
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Down But Not Out
My son Jedd is the guest blogger today. He recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Ember, an incredible night photography tool for the iPhone. Since many of my readers supported this effort, it seemed…
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Grease Under My Fingernails
There was grease under my fingernails when I woke this morning. Not that I did much mechanical work, but a weekend cleaning the garage meant handling a lot of tools. Even after two showers and…
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Ember
My son has always been a tinkerer. We still laugh about his childhood dream of wanting to build an airplane in our backyard. I pointed out we had no tires for the plane to land…
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From This Adventure to the Next and Back
Most of us feel a touch of trepidation when we travel to an unknown place. Walking into the foreign can be both thrilling and frightening at the same time. Even after years of going to…
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Turkish Carpets
Okay, one last post from our vacation. Like all visitors to Turkey, we were sucked into a presentation on Turkish rugs. And guess what — D’Aun bought one! Actually, she bought three (they are small…
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Vacation – Part III
East meets West. That’s the phrase most often heard when talking to people about Istanbul. It’s unlike any city in the world, both for better and worse. The last stop of our trip, Istanbul was…
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Vacation – Part II
I love to search out the oddball people when I travel. They are the ones who make you think and even more often laugh. Sometimes I’d hear people express ideas and wonder if they are…
