Part 1: Observations from a repatriating American and what it means to be back after being gone for twenty-five years. . . . living in an age where instant gratification is not fast enough. When I order online, I don’t need it delivered immediately, although now, the expectation seems to be, by the time you […]
She warned me, but I just got so excited I couldn’t control myself. “Just a little hint here and there,” I promised. “Sure, honey, but I know you. There won’t be anything little about it.” And sure enough, with enough hints, people started to share my excitement. And then they wanted to know when the […]
Facebook post seven years ago: It’s a Miracle (can now be found on my websit First night, monster me, so afraid that Susan wouldn’t want to sleep next to Hannibal Lector. Lucky me, she likes me a lot and her patience and understanding really paid off. I slept eight hours, didn’t get up to pee […]
Seven months and three weeks ago today we started to walk, and walk, and walk, and walk—and only missed four days since then, two due to illness, two due to snow. It was a conspiracy of doctors that finally got me going, and Susan. In the past year and a half, having a variety of […]
I have been writing for years, using Works, Word, Apple Works, Google docs, open source, and more—for business and personal use, to write letters, ads, lesson plans, and all the rest. As Word became the preeminent word processing application over the years, starting out with just a few thousand commands, adding thousands more through upgrades, […]