Work, Family, Life at 60+

Not only am I generally an early riser, but I’m an early riser whose home office has been expropriated by a visiting granddaughter who needed her own bed. And an early riser struggling to keep…

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Important Visitors

I apologize for the radio silence, and I assure you we will be back to regular programming as soon as possible. It has been a very busy week with 3 young visitors. We brought our…

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Weekends and Couple Time . . .

One of our most enjoyable habits as a couple, something that has only developed in the last 15 or so years, is that I read to Paul during road trips (only when he’s driving; not…

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Travel Thoughts, 2:40 a.m.: Anticipation and Anxiety

I realize I might be wise to preface this post with an admission that mine is very obviously a First World problem. But I do try to write honestly about my life, and anxiety is…

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Smile! A kid and some goats . . .

Feeling a bit under the weather (I’ve stopped sneezing enough that I’m continuing teaching, but any spare time is given over to resting — and to making travel plans, on which more later . .…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.