Cake and ... more cake
Each Labor Day, we celebrate our daughter Stephanie's birthday. The party concludes summer (if not the hot weather) in much the same way as our shindig in honor of Erica's birthday on Memorial Day,...
View ArticleThat's the taphophile talking
It's well known by my readers that I am a taphophile: One who enjoys wandering amongst the tombs. A tombstone tourist, as it were. Edgar Allan Poe was a taphophile too. So if you're known by the...
View ArticleScratching the itch
Here's the thing: mosquitoes love me. Because they love me, they find me. And when they find me, they find me tasty. The moment I step outside during any month of the year in which mosquitoes are...
View ArticleStand tall, tower
In late August, TG and I spent several days in Chicago. You know: the town the Obamas sorta kinda call home, when they're not trotting jet-setting the globe as multi-millionaire celebrities protected...
View ArticleThe pirate prepares
For near on a week now, all we've heard about in the news is apocalyptic doom coming our way in the form of Hurricane Florence. Death by weather. And for some, Florence's effects will indeed be...
View ArticleThe skies were black
Photo Courtesy Maribeth BruinsHurricane Florence wasn't one anymore, by the time she reached us. She'd been stripped of her title. After all the hoopla that we endured for a week preceding the event,...
View ArticleI've bean to the crown
You know I exist to bring you not only experiences, and pictures of those experiences, but the commentary that both deserve. And the explanations that you deserve. But I'm pretty sure there's no need...
View ArticleSweet summertime, goodbye
Now that summer has melted into fall, we're left with memories of Things We Managed To Accomplish While It Was Sweltering Outside. This year's TWMTAWIWSO include taking my two middle grandchildren to...
View ArticleA past that lasts
When TG and I took Audrey and Dagny to the Georgia Aquarium last June for Dagny's fourth birthday -- that was the same trip where we visited the grave of JonBenét Ramsey -- we were less than a week...
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