This is a topic near and dear to me! Go out and buy this book and read it while eating some local seafood!
My dad was only human…
Author's note: This story shares an event in my childhood, my dad's 40th birthday, whose impact subconsciously stayed with me into adulthood. Today would have been my father's 80th birthday - he died last November, ten days before my 43rd birthday, a few months after I finished this story. I grew to love my dad... Continue Reading →
Saint Lo Seventy Years later
Disclaimer: I have been using the wordpress app on my iPhone for the blogs while on my trip. It is a pathetic application with no way to save a draft so I can work on it on my kindle after posting pictures. WordPress needs to understand that writers like all artists need a sketchbook and... Continue Reading →
A grave matter?
Wednesday was the chosen day. We packed our father's ashes to drive them to their final resting place. The grave of his father. A reunion 70 years in the making. From the shores of the English Channel near Fort La Varde, the last location my grandfather was stationed, we drove inland 130 kilometers towards the... Continue Reading →
Green is the new red: Will Potter on the problem of treating environmentalists like terrorists
Powerful expose!
Tsunami warning in Honolulu
An hour after enjoying a lovely sunset, we are now in the midst of a tsunami warning. After a 7.7 earthquake off of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia Canada. I am in Waikiki, on the 17th floor of a condo that is not in the inundation zone that requires mandatory evacuation. Traffic is... Continue Reading →
Up yours!
I was in Alaska last week. The 49th state of our union, the last frontier, a state twice the size of Texas, where glaciers still exist, where you can still find wild animals roaming their ancestral habitat. My goal while there, besides attending a conference, was to capture a moose. With a camera of course,... Continue Reading →