“All you can do is the best you can do” was a mantra that I used a lot when my kids were growing up. When they were nervous about a presentation or test at school, an upcoming try-out, game or meet, applying to colleges or for scholarships and lots of other occasions when they felt […]
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A few weeks ago I read an opinion piece in USA today in which the author proudly proclaimed that he had just returned from a vacation in Hawaii and had only taken one great photograph. In fact he said it was the only one he had taken during the entire trip. His feeling was he […]
Last month I confidently wrote about an upcoming solo trip I had planned and arranged on my own. I was unabashed in expressing the pride I felt in knowing that I was able to coordinate this 10 day journey involving three separate airplane flights, overnight visits in Idaho with both my younger brother and my […]
In a couple of days I will be leaving on a ten-day trip across the country trip that was originally planned just to visit a couple of my very special great-aunts who live in northern Minnesota (both in their 90s). Don will stay at home in Maine to care for our 12-year-old Australian Cattle Dog […]
In my blog last month I talked about an important wedding in Alaska that had caused us to delay our annual mud-season road trip south. In the six weeks since, we did complete our road trip as planned, touring Harper’s Ferry, northern Georgia, Hot Springs, AR, The Land Between The Lakes, and Ohiophyle and […]
We had planned to be on the road by now for what has become a nearly annual mud season camping trip. When winter seems to be breathing its last breath here in New England, temperatures rise and precipitation begins to fall as rain instead of snow. The plow piles and blankets of white that have […]
I can still recall my home phone number for the house that I lived in as a child in the 50s and 60s. It was Empire 52994 or 365-2994. Empire replaced the first two digits in what would later become the standard seven digit phone number that we use today for local calls. Essentially it […]
