5 Reasons to Send Christmas Cards
Christmas Cards – A Dying Tradition? This month I’m reprising an essay I posted in 2019. I’m writing my Christmas cards this week, and this essay tells you why. The Greeting Cards Cometh As I sit in my cozy chair and open my mail this...A Much Needed Vacation
On The Road Again To my family, it must seem that I am on vacation all the time. Since I retired, and especially since I moved to southern California, I have made many road trips and enjoyed a couple of spectacular cruises. Of course my flight north during the LA...Digging Out of the Slough of Despond
The Slough of Despond Following certain actions of the U.S. government around the beginning of July that I will not detail here, having a policy of no politics in my newsletter, I found myself wallowing in negative thoughts and being unable, or unwilling, to...
Grandma Camp 2025
How Time Flies It seems only yesterday I was on Amtrak riding home from Santa Fe, New Mexico, but suddenly it was Memorial Day, and then June. For their anniversary this year, my son and his wife wanted to spend some grownup time together in Ojai, so their 8 year old...
Spring Break in New Mexico
Spring Break in New Mexico Some time during the winter I confided to my youngest daughter, who lives in Virginia, that I would like to see New Mexico again in the springtime. In the 70s, the husband of my youth and I had traveled to Las Cruces, in southern New...
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