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This is a story that I wrote and self-published around 2012. It is based on a joke I heard while working up north in Alberta. The idea is that it gets so cold, so fast in Alberta that ducks get frozen into their duck ponds – LOL. In 1992 Mona, my wife, and Ryan our […]
I lived in Quebec City from March to November 2021 and just loved it here. The Saint Lawrence River is a gigantic river that was covered in ice when I arrived. It was amazing to see the ice flowing upstream because of the Atlantic tides that affect the river. I hope that this post is […]
Be careful what you wish for!! We had a roommate named Richard who was a lot of fun and we had many great experiences with him. Richard was an athletic type that did lots of things on his own including going hiking/mountaineering ….. The line between these two activities is not clear to me ….. […]
I suppose we can all imagine a freak accident where a ballet dancer is performing some great feat and slips and falls and breaks their neck ….. such a tragedy ……. they die from their injury …… Well this is not that story!!!! This is a story about how humans can balance risk and …… […]
This story is not really about the Lady Rose but she played a small part …… a story about how we can go out on one adventure only to find a twist in the story by discovering something totally unexpected. This story is about Floyd Mosier, my ex’s dad and a good friend of mine. […]
New York City wanderings!! In 1999 I was working for FFF Enterprises in Temecula California. I was in New York City doing a presentation to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. They are a large cancer hospital and they were interested in possibly using our clinical research software. We did the meeting decided we would walk over to […]
========================================= September 12 – 2021 – This is an update to my story – In 2021 we have just experienced another major catastrophe with the Covid pandemic, following on the heals of 4 years of the Donald Trump presidency and the January 6, 2021 insurrection in the United States. Major disruption are usually shocking at […]
Indictment – Who Me!!!!! I have a pewter bowl that I use as a soap dish in my bathroom. It is kind of battered and misshapen from the many moves that I have made but I keep it to remind me of this story, a story that the Washington Post called “the most brazen bribery […]
I guess the bottom line is that there are many ways to die but challenging fate and combining two ways at the same time must qualify for the STUPID award for trying to ride a rail train in the middle of winter. It all started with a friend of mine Bob and I deciding that […]
Have you ever been in one of those moments when everything around you is totally out of control and there is nothing you can do but kinda laugh at the insanity of it all ….. This story is about one of those moments that happened to me many years ago! The crux of the matter […]