Covid has driven everyone stir crazy. Outdoor activities have become more popular and small excursions have been a way to safely relieve...

Jan 6 - Time in Retirement Is to lose myself in different types of self-expression - compositions of photography, music,...

The Goal - April 21 The Goal is not to find anxiety in the future or remorse in the past, but peace in the present. Drum Expression - May...

We loved Spain so much on the trip in 2018 and felt there was so much more to see; especially Barcelona which seems to be on everyone's...

Death In Life - Feb. 20 In many ways I’ve been conscious and preparing for death all my life - not taking career etc, too seriously....

(original post) We'd started planning a trip as soon as we knew that our youngest, Nathan, was leaving for Nashville, effectively leaving...

Montreal - July 3-4 Martha, Patrick and I are in Montreal at the moment.   Marth and I had originally planned on coming up ourselves, but...

I am always bewildered by friends who say they don't want to retire because they're not sure what they'd do.  Seriously?   I can't wait...

(Note: An abbreviated recollection taken from casual notes) We took Icelandair to save some money, leaving Dulles and stopping in...

Cathing Up - Procrastinating again; so here are some recollections of highlights for the latter part of the year. As we wound into...

Jan 16 - Doug Richardson - A rainy dreary January day and went to Doug Richardson's funeral mass.  It was in a large Catholic churched...

Since Jamie is now in San Francisco and the other three are at Camp Highlands, Martha and I decided to spend some of my LLS windfall that...

Easton, MD - June 27 Sitting in Easton in a house we swapped with another couple, overlooking water. Golfed yesterday, kayaking...