Aug 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bev and I went to the fair on Monday, August 17th, Senior Day, and had a grand time. We hurried to get there because Bev wanted to see her former tapper group perform; they were scheduled for 9:45. We arrived with time to spare, but then had even more time because the...
Aug 10, 2026 | New York - June 2026
Our plane didn’t leave til 3:15 in the afternoon, so we had plenty of time to get out of the hotel. Or rather, we would have had plenty of time, but instead there was much scrambling and packing and more packing and we left our room at 11:58, two minutes before...
Aug 9, 2026 | New York - June 2026
After Mom fell and broke her shoulder walking up the stairs at the Frick Museum, and got a diagnosis and a sling at a walk-in Urgent Care, we had lots of stuff to do. We left the Medrite Lenox Hill Urgent Care at 5:00 and our final show was going to start at seven. It...
Aug 8, 2026 | New York - June 2026
Mom and I left the hotel about an hour after I returned from my run/walk. I wonder why Mom didn’t get a phone photo here? Maybe we were in a hurry. We headed to the nearby Stage Star deli for a delicious bite. I had a bagel and lox, yum. And then we headed into...
Aug 7, 2026 | New York - June 2026
I’d never seen this statue before. It’s inscribed, Dedicated to the Indomitable Spirit of the Sled Dogs that relayed antitoxin 600 miles over rough ice over treacherous waters through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the...
Aug 6, 2026 | New York - June 2026
When I woke up on Monday morning at around 9:30, on our last full day in New York, I looked out the window to see what was happening down the avenue. There was a guy on the roof across the street. He didn’t seem to be doing much. Loitering. Down below, traffic...
Aug 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Kevin’s birthday was yesterday, August 4th, and a good time was had by all. We started out with a kayak (first time this year for me) over to Long Bay. Delightful! This is the end of Long Bay. The big fluffy tree on the right is a Cypress. Earlier in the year...
Aug 2, 2026 | New York - June 2026
On Sunday afternoon we hopped on a bus for the short ride down to the library. This picture is funny to me because that’s what happens when you don’t quite get somebody in the frame. Oops, sorry, Mom. We walked through the library and out the side door...
Jul 31, 2026 | New York - June 2026
We stayed up late (for me, and early for Mom) watching TV, and on Sunday morning, the expo was still going on. Not so busy at 10:30 on Sunday morning. Ready to roar out at the crack of noon! Mom was agreeable about going back to the Astro Diner for breakfast, probably...
Jul 30, 2026 | New York - June 2026
All dressed up and ready to go! I’d never changed outfits so much on a trip, except when Kevin and I were super duper dressed up for sailing to and from the UK, and then changed to hiking gear for marching along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales. And before...
Jul 29, 2026 | New York - June 2026
When we got to the Met it was very crowded. The line was long, and I snuck a photo of these oddly-dressed young women. Mom tried to ask them if they were in a play, but they didn’t speak English. I told her I was sure they weren’t in a play, but on the...
Jul 28, 2026 | New York - June 2026
I woke up on our second day in the city with plans. Did I? Yes, I always have a plan. I believe I intended to go up to the Metropolitan and maybe the Frick and also Central Park, which is just about my favorite place to sit and watch people in NYC. But when I opened...
Jul 19, 2026 | New York - June 2026
It was Friday, June 19th, and we’d breakfasted, we’d gelato’d, we’d walked a lot at the Little Island and the High Line, and I was in need of refreshment after all that walking. We’d managed to walk a few blocks to a drugstore on our...
Jul 16, 2026 | New York - June 2026
Well, here are some of the photos from our first day – we were busy and of course I took more than one million pictures. Even though I’ve whittled them down to way less than a million, I still have to break up our first day into two segments. So this...
Jul 14, 2026 | New York - June 2026
Mom and I left for New York on Thursday, June 18th. Our plane didn’t leave til the three in the afternoon so it was a leisurely drive to the St. Louis airport Or it would have been a leisurely drive, except as we neared St. Louis it started to pour down rain....
Jul 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
which I’m reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that’s not what flooding the zone means to me. For me, it was a literal flood. Confusion, yes, but...
Jul 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
That’s what was going through my mind on Sunday morning. Actually, my first thought was “Are you f***king KIDDING me?” Because after all the stuff with Mom’s surgery, and she’s doing great, BTW, I felt like life was a whirl of crazy...
Jun 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Yeah, where have I been? Well, for one thing, Mom and I got back from an impromptu trip to NYC, and we just got back on Tuesday. That’s the Tuesday that we just had, June 23rd. We left for NYC on Thursday June 18th and saw some plays and did some stuff and many...
May 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Whew, time continues to fly by, and now we’re in May, although it feels a little bit like late March because suddenly it’s a little bit chilly. A real roller coaster of weather we’ve been having this spring. So…way back in march a huge flotilla...
Apr 18, 2026 | Florida 2026
I got up ridiculously early on Wednesday, Jan. 28th. The thing is, the ocean was visible from the backyard but I didn’t notice it til getting up so early. This was only 7:30 in the morning. I don’t see that hour very often if I can avoid it. I took a video...
Apr 15, 2026 | Florida 2026
Whew, finally nearing the story of of our Florida trip, and now it’s already April…anyway, there were many things I wanted to do on this last day, but didn’t have time for all of them. It was kind of cool but sunny on this January Tuesday morning....
Apr 10, 2026 | Florida 2026, Uncategorized
It was chilly and windy on Monday in Florida, as expected. We had a leisurely morning enjoying the lanai overlooking the pool. And we finally managed to get into the car to go to the beach at the crack of 1:23. We headed to the Englewood beach, which was completely...
Apr 4, 2026 | Florida 2026
The weather was about to get chilly in Florida, so I figured we’d better take a boat ride and maybe see some dolphins on Sunday, Jan. 25th. But first, of course, we had to go to the grocery store. Aldi, this time, and it was a fine and large Aldi and right down...
Mar 19, 2026 | More Videos
Today, March 19th, I did a short Gracetalk for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Lincoln Land Community College. I haven’t done any Gracetalks at all since 2018, and so I had worked myself into a tizzy and got more and more anxious about it and last night I...
Mar 16, 2026 | Florida 2026
Saturday March 24th, we started the day at the beach, managing to get there before noon, which was quite something. Really, we hurried because Amy was leaving that day and we had to get back and drive her to the airport. We went up to the Blind Pass beach again and it...
Mar 6, 2026 | Florida 2026
First, let me say that today, March 6th, the weather is crazy warm and wonderful and I’m going to go for a run in a minute. Yes, it’s too warm for this time of year, but it’s also completely awesome. It also makes me want to rush outside and plunge...
Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Today is Mom’s BIG DAY!!! Whoo hoo, she’s doing so awesome as she starts her 9th decade. Much, much merriment, including a delicious fish dinner that Kevin prepared last night (a very historic event, indeed); we took the food over and ate at Mom’s...
Feb 13, 2026 | Florida 2026
Well…we didn’t make it to the beach til mid-afternoon on that first day, Jan. 22nd. First of all, Amy and I took a little walk because I was trying to find a nearby nature place called the Lemon Bay Conservancy and I’m looking it up on google maps...
Feb 7, 2026 | Florida 2026
Before Mom, Amy and I went to Florida in January, I decided to buy a sun shelter for the beach. The beach is my absolute favorite place, but I don’t want any rays of the sun to touch my skin. Mostly. On previous trips that Mom and I have taken to Florida we had...
Feb 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
I haven’t had the mental fortitude to start looking through the many photos I took on our trip to Florida at the end of last month, so here are a few non-Florida pictures. First, maybe I’ve mentioned that we’ve been worried about Lester for several...
