• The long road

    I was out running the other day and for some reason started thinking about how long I’ve been running. Well, what actually happened was that I found some change on the street – 7 cents: two pennies and a nickel. In other words, a big day. So I got to thinking about how much money…

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  • Two weeks in Europe, Part 2

    At the end of part one, I mentioned that we had to change our plans. We basically ran out of time – in our planning we had underestimated the time it was going to take to get from Point A to Point B, C, etc. Originally we had hoped to see Switzerland and Austria and…

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  • Two weeks in Europe: Part 1

    A certain someone turned 70 on March 8. That seemed like a pretty big deal, so to celebrate we took a trip to France and Germany, mostly seeing things we’d never seen before. We started the trip in Paris. Well, the adventure really started on the flight from LAX to Paris. We flew Air France…

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  • Catching Up, Part 2: East Coast Travels

    In this episode  of catching up with myself, I reflect on our recent (early Nov 2016) trip to Washington, DC. our purpose was to join the family in a tribute 5K for my brother, who lost his battle with Multiple Myeloma in late Jan. He and a bunch of friends and family had been doing this…

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  • Catching Up, Part 1: Sightseeing in the Upper Peninsula, or not, as the case may be

    This is the start of a series of catch-up blog posts. I fell off the wagon of writing, and had a hard time getting started again. Life sometimes just gobsmacks you, and you have to roll with it and have faith you’ll come out on the other side. So here I am on the other…

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  • New beginnings

    I’ve been taking a bit of a break from blogging and most social media for the past several months. 2015 was a pretty rough year and 2016 didn’t exactly start off all sunshiney and great. But hey, it’s a new day – I mean, in a world where Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for…

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