The other day a friend commented about my bright blue eyes. I’ve never thought of my eyes as being particularly blue. When I was younger they were more green than blue, and people sometimes referred to my eyes as being hazel. (Don’t ask me what color hazel is because I have absolutely no idea, but … Read more
A few days ago I received an email from my friend, Victor Sibanda, who lives in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. There is so much bad news coming out of Zimbabwe these days that it surprised me to learn Victor has started his own tour hosting business. I was encouraged by his news; it indicates there is … Read more
I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I fled the city years ago, first to the suburbs and then to more remote areas around the country, but now that I am older, I find myself strangely drawn to Chicago. Perhaps that’s because all my immediate family members still live in the Chicagoland area. … Read more
All day, CNN has been featuring a video clip of a man who strapped himself into kite surfing apparatus on some Florida beach during tropical storm Faye. One 60 mph gust came along, picked him up, slammed him into the beach a couple of times, picked him up again, carried him across an adjacent parking … Read more
Hurricane Faye may not have amounted to much of a tropical storm, but her crazy energy certainly wreaked havoc in my life. Beginning on Saturday, things just started to go wrong for me. Think I’m exaggerating? Read on. I’d been putting off upgrading my blog to the new 2.6 version of WordPress (for you non-techies … Read more
